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Servetus) by HENRY STEBBING, London and New York, 1851, in 2
vols. This large work marks an epoch as an industrious collection of
valuable material, but is ill digested, and written with unbounded
admiration for Calvin. Henry wrote also, in opposition to Audin and
Galiffe, an abridged Leben Johann Calvin’s. Ein Zeugniss für die
Wahrheit. Hamburg and Gotha, 1846 (pp. 498).
Thomas Smyth, D. D.: Calvin and his Enemies. 1843; new ed.
Philadelphia (Presbyterian Board of Publication), 1856, and again
1881. Apologetic.
Thomas H. Dyer: The Life of John Calvin. London (John Murray),
1850, pp. 560 (republished, New York, 1851). Graphic and impartial,
founded upon Calvin’s correspondence, Henry, and Trechsel
(Antitrinitarier).
Felix Bungener: Calvin, sa vie, son oeuvre, et ses écrits. Paris, 2d ed.
1863 (pp. 468). English translation, Edinburgh, 1863.
*E. Stähelin (Reformed minister at Basel): Johannes Calvin; Leben
und ausgewählte Schriften. Elberfeld, 1863, 2 vols. (in “Väter und
Begründer der reform. Kirche,” vol. IV. in two parts). One of the best
biographies, though not as complete as Henry’s, and in need of
modification and additions from more recent researches.
Paul Pressel (Luth.): Johann Calvin. Ein evangelisches Lebensbild.
Elberfeld, 1864 (pp. 263). For the tercentenary of Calvin’s death (May
27, 1864). Based upon Stähelin, Henry, Mignet, and Bonnet’s edition
of Calvin’s letters.
Albert Rilliet: Bibliographie de la vie de Calvin. “Correspond.
litteraire.” Paris, 1864. La premier séjour de Calvin à Genève. Gen.
1878.
*Guizot (the great historian and statesman, a descendant of the
Huguenots, d. at Val Richer, Sept. 12, 1874): St. Louis and Calvin.
London, 1868. Comp. also his sketch in the Musée des protestants
célèbres.
*F. W. Kampschulte (a liberal Roman Catholic, Professor of History
at Bonn, died an Old Catholic, 1872): Joh. Calvin, seine Kirche und
sein Staat in Genf. Leipzig, 1869, vol. I. (vols. II. and III. have not