John Calvin was born in 1509. He died in 1564. John Calvin was
the son of a lawyer. He was born in Noyon, Picardy and was
therefore a Frenchman. Calvin developed a love for scholarship
and literature. In 1523 he went to the University of Paris where
he studied theology. To maintain himself while a student, Calvin
secured a small chaplaincy attached to Noyon Cathedral. In 1528
he went to Orleans to study Law, and one year later Calvin went
to Bourges also to study Law. Calvin was pressurised by his
father to study Law but in 1531 his father died giving Calvin
the freedom to resume his religious studies. In the same year
that his father died, Calvin went to the College de France in
Paris to study Greek. This college was noted for its Humanistic
approach to learning. In fact, all the colleges that Calvin
attended had Humanistic leanings and it was only natural that
this influenced Calvin. He became an admirer of Erasmus. At some
point between 1528 and 1533 he experienced a "sudden conversion"
and grasped Protest