Geneva
Switzerland
Geneva, in southwestern Switzerland where the Rhône leaves Lake Geneva, was an Allobrogian town taken by Rome in 121 BCE and had a bishop by the fifth century. In the sixteenth century it became a centre of the Protestant Reformation: John Calvin led its church from 1541, earning it the name 'Protestant Rome', and the Academy he founded in 1559, now the University of Geneva, drew students such as Jacobus Arminius, who studied there under Theodore Beza. John Knox ministered to the city's English congregation from 1556 to 1559. Geneva joined the Swiss Confederation in 1815, and in modern times it has hosted the League of Nations, the Red Cross and many United Nations agencies.
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Teachers who lived here
John Calvin
John Calvin (1509–1564)
reformer, pastor, death 1536–1564
John Knox
John Knox (1514–1572)
exile and formation 1556–1559
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza (1519–1605)
initial arrival, conversion 1548–1549
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza (1519–1605)
church leader, rector 1558–1605
Jacobus Arminius
Jacobus Arminius (1559–1609)
theological formation 1582–1586
Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705)
Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748)
Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy (1778–1829)
Works composed here
- 1564
Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
by John Calvin
- 1564
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
by John Calvin
- 1564
Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
by John Calvin
- 1564
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
by John Calvin
- 1564
One Hundred Aphorisms,
by John Calvin
- 1564
Prefatory Material
by John Calvin
Ideas shaped here
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