Introduction
Theodor Beza was born on 24 June 1519 in Vézelay into a noble family. He was first a pupil of the German Protestant lawyer and scholar of Greek Melchior Volmar, who greatly influenced him, studying under him at Orléans and Bourges, where he met the young John Calvin. From 1535 to 1539 Beza studied law at Orléans, and after graduating went to Paris where, well-funded by two benefices, devoted himself to literature, mainly poetry. After surviving the plague, he became more interested in the spiritual aspects of life and turned to the Reformation. In 1548, he went to Lausanne, where he worked as a Greek teacher, and from there to Geneva, where he became rector of the newly founded academy in 1559 and an important collaborator of Calvin. At the beginning he tried unsuccessfully to unite the Protestant churches. For his conversion, he was sentenced to death in absentia in France and had part of his property confiscated. Between 1560 and 1563 he made many diplomatic trips to...
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Vaculínová, M. (2022). Beza, Theodore. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_985-1
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