Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

DIODATI, GIOVANNI (1576-1649)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

DIODATI, GIOVANNI (1576-1649) , Swiss See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 6th of See also:June 1576, of a See also:noble See also:family originally belonging to See also:Lucca, which had been expatriated on See also:account of its Protestantism. At the See also:age of twenty-one he was nominated See also:professor of See also:Hebrew at Geneva on the recommendation of Theodor See also:Beza. In 16o6 he became professor of See also:theology, in 16o8 pastor, or See also:parish See also:minister, at Geneva, and in the following See also:year he succeeded Beza as professor of theology. As a preacher he was eloquent, bold and fearless. He held a high See also:place among the reformers of Geneva, by whom he was sent on a See also:mission to See also:France in 1614. He had previously visited See also:Italy, and made the acquaintance of See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi, whom he endeavoured unsuccessfully to engage in a See also:reformation See also:movement. In 1618-1619 he attended the See also:synod of See also:Dort, and took a prominent See also:part in its deliberations, being one of the six divines appointed to draw up the account of its proceedings. He was a thorough Calvinist, and entirely sympathized with the condemnation of the Arminians. In 1645 he resigned his professorship, and died at Geneva or. the 3rd of See also:October 1649. Diodati is chiefly famous as the author of the See also:translation of the See also:Bible into See also:Italian (1603, edited with notes, 1607). He also undertook a translation of the Bible into See also:French, which appeared with notes in 1644. Among his other See also:works are his Annotationes in Biblia (1607), of which an See also:English translation (Pious and Learned Annotations upon the See also:Holy Bible) was published in See also:London in 1648, and various polemical See also:treatises, such as De fictitio Pontificiorum Purgatorio (1619); De justa See also:secession Reformatorum ab See also:Ecclesia See also:Romana (1628); De Antichristo, &c.

He also published French See also:

translations of Sarpi's See also:History of the See also:Council of See also:Trent, and of See also:Edwin See also:Sandys's Account of the See also:State of See also:Religion in the See also:West.

End of Article: DIODATI, GIOVANNI (1576-1649)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium) 		[next]
DIODORUS CRONUS (4th century B.C.)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries