Jean Crespin

Jean Crespin , (1520 with Arras - April 12th 1572 with Geneva), was a lawyer, author, Imprimeur and editor French which had to be exiled with Geneva of which it obtains the established among in 1558.

Biography

It made studies of right to Leuwen then with Paris where it was accepted doctor in 1540 and lawyer at the Parliament. Having adhered to the Reform and being in relation to Calvin and Bèze, it is condemned for heresy in 1545 and constrained to leave its birthplace. It takes refuge then with Strasbourg before coming to Geneva in 1548 with Theodore de Bèze. Here its career takes a turning, it leaves the world of the Droit for that of the books and founds a printing works.

In 1558, it is received with the middle-class of Geneva.

Large expert of the languages Greek and Latin, it helps Robert Constantin (1530-1605) in the composition of sound Lexicon Græco-Latinum ¹.

Printing works was a formidable accelerator of diffusion of the theses of Luther. The Reform was the first religious movement to benefit fully from this instrument which was to upset the cultural data of the time. Luther even considered to him that printing works constituted largest and the most extreme act of the divine Grace by which the influence of the Gospel is propagated.

He is the founder of a reading Protesting E of the Roman law and published in 1554 the Histoire of the martyrs , or Actes of the martyrs (the protesting Martyrologe). Crespin is also the author of a handbook of civil law.

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