Calvin, J.

…a French-born religious reformer. His surname was originally Cauvin, but following the example of educated people of the time, it was Latinized as Calvinus, and then pronounced Calvin in French.
[Life]
Born into a middle-class family in Picardy, he entered the University of Paris at a young age and studied law and humanism at the universities of Orléans and Bourges. He was influenced by the writings of Luther, but hesitated for a long time before deciding to join the Reformation. After his conversion, he became an evangelical, abandoned his career as a classical scholar, and wrote his major work, Institutes of the Christian Reformation, while serving as an underground activist in France.

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…フランス出身の宗教改革者。姓はもとコーバンCauvin，当時の教養人の例にならってラテン語化してカルウィヌスCalvinus，さらにフランス読みにしてカルバンという。
［生涯］
　ピカルディーの中産階級の出。若年でパリ大学に入り，オルレアン，ブールジュの大学で法学と人文主義の学問を修めた。ルターの書物から感化を受けたが，宗教改革への決断は久しくためらっていた。回心を経験して福音主義者のうちに身を投じ，古典学者としての道を捨て，フランス宗教改革の地下活動に服務しながら，主著《キリスト教綱要》を書く。…

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