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John Calvin was a French theologian and pastor who was an instrumental figure in the Protestant Reformation. After his death, Calvinism became an influential religious doctrine which believed in thrift, hard work, a puritanical morality and the religious dogmas of predestination and eternal damnation for those who did not seek salvation from God.
Calvin was born 10 July 1509 at Noyon, a town in Picardy, France.
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He received a high standard of education, studying at College de Montaigu in Paris. He planned a career in the church but aged 16 his father enrolled him in the University of Orleans to study law, probably because a lawyer was more remunerative than church life.
In 1529, he enrolled at the University of Bourges, where he was inspired by Andreas Alciati, a humanist lawyer. For a while, Calvin pursued humanist studies which included the great classical writers such as Aristotle and Plato.
However, around 1530, the young Calvin underwent a religious conversion.
He left his re