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Title: Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McCrie, Charles Greig, 1836-1910 Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605
Subjects: Reformation Reformers Reformers
Publisher: London Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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187 Melchior Wolmar (Melior Volmarius) WHAT is now the Kingdom of Wiirtem-berg in Germany was in the sixteenthcentury called Swabia. There, at thelittle town of Rothweil, or Rotweil,Melchior Wolmar first saw the light.When judged to be of a fitting age, young Wolmarwas sent to a Latin school at Bern founded by hisuncle, Michael Rottle. From Bern he made hisway to Friburg, and after spending some timethere he passed to Paris, where, in straitened cir-cumstances and with no social advantages, he soapplied himself to the study of languages andphilosophy that he headed the list of graduatesin his year of laureation. From the banks of theSeine, Wolmar, suspected of Protestant leaningsand sympathies, found it safe to disappear. In1527 he established at Orleans a seminary for 188
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MELCHIOR WOLMAR. Melchior Wolmar youths engaged in professional studies. Here weget our first distinct view of the French scholar.For on December 5, 1528, there arrived at thehouse of Wolmar, as scholar and boarder, Theo-dore Beza, then a boy of nine. Looking backupon the time spent under the roof of his Orleansinstructor, Beza did not fail to discern a graciousprovidence which led to his being sent away fromParis, then the most celebrated seat of learning inEurope, to a private provincial school recentlyopened by one of whom his guardian had noprevious knowledge. What Wolmar became toBeza can be gathered from the fact that the latterafterwards styled the day of his entering thathouse in Orleans his birthday. If not his spiritualfather—and that Calvin might fitly claim to be—Wolmar would seem to have been the instrumentemployed by God to liberate youthful Bezasmental powers from error and superstition andto implant in his soul a thirst for knowledge andtruth. This accounts for the

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