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John Calvin

Also known as Jehan Cauvin, Calvin, Jean Calvin, Johannes Calvinus, Ioannes Calvinus, Cauvin

French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

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John Calvin, born Jehan Cauvin in Noyon, was a male theologian and citizen of the Kingdom of France and the Republic of Geneva. He wrote in French, Latin, Middle French, and German. Calvin was educated at the Collège de Montaigu, the University of Bourges, and the University of Orléans, studying under Melchior Volmar, Andrea Alciato, and Corderius. His professional work included locations in Geneva and Strasbourg, and he supervised doctoral students Franciscus Junius and Lambert Daneau.

He authored numerous works, with counts ranging from five to 262 across various databases. His writings include commentaries on texts such as 1 and 2 John, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, and Isaiah. Calvin suffered from asthma and died of sepsis in Geneva, where he is buried in the Cemetery of Kings. His work is described in sources including the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 262

Top works

Researchers Library of Ancient Texts - Volume IV : The Reformers
1, 2, and 3 John
1 and 2 Thessalonians
Isaiah
John

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Scotland
Active from: 1984-01-17

2010sclubcomplextrocontemporary r&bdancedance and electronica

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 551
Total plays: 2,714

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,416x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,543x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,882x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,543x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,119x

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Quotes

“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”
“I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.”
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.”
“I do not doubt that there has been some ignorance in their having reproved this mode of speech, — that the Virgin Mary is the Mother of God … I cannot dissemble that it is found to be a bad practice ordinarily to adopt this title in speaking of this Virgin: and, for my part, I cannot consider such language as good , proper, or suitable… for to say, the Mother of God for the Virgin Mary, can only serve to harden the ignorant in their superstitions.”
“Primo meretur eorum perdita obstinatio et indomabilis, ut immensa miseriarum congerie sine fine et modo oppressi omnes exhilarent suis malis, nemo autem eorum misereatur. (Their [the Jews] depraved and indomitable obstinacy merits that none of them be pitied, as they all delight in their evils while being oppressed by a great mass of miseries without end or measure.)”
“All things being at God’s disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to John Calvin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Commentaires de Jehan Calvin sur le Nouveau Testament - T. III.: Sur les Epistres de S. Paul aux Romains, Corinthiens, Galatiens et Éphésiens.

Commentaires de Jehan Calvin sur le Nouveau Testament - T. IV.: Sur les Epistres de S. Paul aux Philippiens, Colossiens, Thessaloniciens, à Timothée, Tite, Philémon et aux Hébrieux, et sur les Epistres canoniques de S. Pierre, S. Jehan, S. Jaques et S. Jude, autrement appelées catholiques.

Commentaires de Jehan Calvin sur le Nouveau Testament - T. I.: Sur la concordance ou harmonie composée de trois évangélistes asçavoir S. Matthieu, S. Marc et S. Luc.

Institutione della religion christiana di Messer Giouanni Caluino [Texto impreso]

Institutio Christianae Religionis

Ad Francisci Balduini Apostatae Ecebolii conuicia [Texto impreso]

Catechism that means, form of instruction, that contains the principles of the religion of God, useful and necessary for all faithful Christiano [Printed Text]:] composed in the form of dialog, where the teacher asks, and answers the disciple

The Geneva catechism [Texto impreso] :]entitled, Catechism or, Instruction on the Christian Religion

Defensio Orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, contra prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti

Brieve instruction, pour armer tous bons fideles contre les erreurs de la Jecte commune des anabaptistes

L'interim. C'est a dire, provision faite sur les differens de la religion, en quelques villes et pais d'Allemagne (etc.)

Les actes du concile de Trente, avec le remede contre la poison

Traicte tresexcellent de la uie Chrestienne (etc.)

In the primary Mosis librum, qui genesis vulgo dicitur, commentarius

In omnes Pauli Apostoli epistolas atque etiam in epistolam ad Hebraeos... commentarii

Epistolae et responsa ... Ejusdem I. Calvini vita a Theodoro Beza ... descripta

Institution De La Religion Chrestienne Nouvellement Mise En Quatre Livres (etc.)

Notae in politicas Aristotelis priores No, egregiis doctrinis ac sententiis referenciones: ex collatione praestantissimorum interpretum... in usum politicae & iurispudentiae tyronum

Pokorne a Poniziene Napominanij, k Nayneprze mozienieyssjmu Czysarzy Karlowi patemu, A k Nayoswjeczeněyssým Knježatuom, y giným Stawům, Nynje w Sspeyru Sniem Rzjsky drzicym. Aby se o Naprawenje Cyerkwe snaznie a oprawdowie starali :

IOANNIS CALVINI COMMENTARII, in quatuor Pauli Epistolas: AD GALATAS, AD EPHESIOS, AD PHILIPPENSES, AD COLOSSENSES

DE VERA ECCLESIARVM IN DOCTRINA, CEREMONIIS, ET DISCIplina

Lexicon Iuridicum iuris caesarei simul, et canonici, feudalis item, ciuilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici .. auctum deinde, expolitum & emendatum ex hactenus editis accuratissimi lucubrationibus Dn. Cuiacii ..

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Encyclopedic overview

John Calvin (/ˈkælvɪn/; Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Reformed Church movements, including Continental Reformed, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Waldensians, Baptist Reformed, Calvinist Methodism, and Reformed Anglican Churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.

Calvin was a dedicated polemicist and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to his seminal Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, confessional documents, and various other theological treatises.

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