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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY -<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
under <strong>John</strong> Knox <strong>and</strong> William Whittingham <strong>and</strong> eventually carried <strong>Calvin</strong>'s ideas on doctrine <strong>and</strong> polity<br />
back to Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Scotl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
The Collège <strong>Calvin</strong> is now a college preparatory school for the Swiss Maturité.<br />
Within Geneva, <strong>Calvin</strong>'s main concern was the creation of a collège, an institute for the education of<br />
children. A site for the school was selected on 25 March 1558 <strong>and</strong> it opened the following year on 5<br />
June 1559. Although the school was a single institution, it was divided into two parts: a grammar<br />
school called the collège or schola privata <strong>and</strong> an advanced school called the académie or schola<br />
publica. <strong>Calvin</strong> tried to recruit two professors for the institute, Mathurin Cordier, his old friend <strong>and</strong> Latin<br />
scholar who was now based in Lausanne, <strong>and</strong> Emmanuel Tremellius, the former Regius professor of<br />
Hebrew in Cambridge. Neither was available, but he succeeded in obtaining Theodore Beza as rector.<br />
Within five years there were 1,200 students in the grammar school <strong>and</strong> 300 in the advanced school.<br />
The collège eventually became the Collège <strong>Calvin</strong>, one of the college preparatory schools of Geneva;<br />
the académie became the University of Geneva.<br />
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