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CHAPTER 19.
THEODORE BEZA.
Sources: BEZA’S Correspondence, mostly unprinted, but many
letters are given in the Beilagen zu BAUM’S Theodor Beza (see
below), and in HERMINJARD’s Correspondance des réformateurs
dans les pays de langue française (vols. VI. sqq.); and his
published works (the list to the number of ninety is given in the
article “Bèze, Théodore de,” in HAAG, La France Protestante, 2d
ed. by Bordier, vol. II., cols. 620–540). By far the most important
of them are, his Vita J. Calvini, best ed. in Calvin’s Opera, XXI.,
and his Tractationes theologicae (1582). He also had much to do
with the Histoire ecclesiastique des églises reformées au royaume
de France, best ed. by Baum, Cunitz, and Rodolphe Reuss (the son
of Edward Reuss, the editor of Calvin), Paris, 1883–1889. 3 vols.
small quarto.
ANTOINE DE LA FAYE: De vita et obitu Th. Bezae, Geneva,
1606.—FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH SCHLOSSER: Leben des Theodor de
Beza und des Peter Martyr Vermili, Heidelberg, 1809.—*JOHANN
WILHELM BAUM: Theodor Beza nach handschriftlichen Quellen
dargestellt, Leipzig, I. Theil, 1848, with Beilagen to bks. I. and II.
II. Theil, 1861, with Anhang die Beilagen enthaltend, 1862
(unfortunately this masterly book only extends to 1663).—
*HEINRICH HEPPE: Theodor Beza. Leben und ausgewählte
Schriften, Elberfeld, 1861 (contains the whole life, but is inferior in
style to Baum).—Art. Beza by BORDIER in La France Protestante.
Jerome Bolsec: Histoire de la vie, moeurs, doctrine, et
déportements de Theodore de Bèze, Paris, 1682; republished by an
unnamed Roman Catholic in Geneva, 1836, along with Bolsec’s
“Life of Calvin,” to counteract the effect of the celebration of the
third centennial of the Reformation. It has no historical value, but is
a malignant libel, like his so-called “Life of Calvin,” as this
specimen shows: “Bèze, toute so jeunesse, a été un trèsdébauché et
dissolu, sodomite, adultère et suborneur de femmes mariées