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GEORGE. See BALTI- France, July 10, 1509. Soon after taka degree, Paris study of the humanities. In Paris he came under the influence of the teachers ing a degree, he went to Paris for the (1534) had to flee from France, seeking refuge at Basel. There he published long his greatest work: "Institutes of the new theology, and before long following, he was chosen Professor of Divinity and one of the pastors of the church at Geneva. The strict discipline which he sought to introduce gave rise to ill feelings on the part of the citizens.
He was banished from Geneva, and withdrew to Strassburg, where he filled the same posts as in the former city. He was deputed to assist when diets were CALVINISM held by order of the Emperor Charles V., at Worms and at Ratisbon, for the purpose of composing, if possible, the and other leaders of the reformers. The him, and he conferred with Melanchthon the Roman Church. Bucer accompanied and other leaders of the reformers. The JOHN CALVIN people of Geneva then besought him to return. Complying with their request, discipline, and a consistorial he arrived there Sept. 13, 1541, and straightway established a form of ecclesiastical kinds of canonical punishments, which jurisdiction with power of inflicting all seemed, to many, a yoke quite as hard Calvin's inflexible character bore down, and rigorously did he carry out his own rules that he condemned to the stake and caused to be burned his once intimate against the doctrine of the Trinity. Calagainst the doctrine of the Trinity. Calwhich, after the custom of that age, he vin (whose real name was Chauvin, which, after the custom of that age, he Latinized into Calvinus) died in Geneva, May 27, 1564.