Bezantler

The second branch of a stag's horn. Béze, THÉODORE DE, ( bai'zā,) an eminent French Protestant theologian and reformer, B. at Vezelai, 1519. After studying at Orleans and Bourges, he went, in 1539, to Paris, where he spent nine years, and then went to Geneva and married a woman to whom he had long been secretly engaged. Soon afterward he was appointed profe or of Greek, at Lausanne, a post which he held for ten years. In 1558, he was sent to ask the interce ion of several German princes in behalf of the persecuted Huguenots in France. The next year he settled at Geneva, and was thenceforth the a ociate of Calvin till his death, and his succe or as Profe or of Theology and head of the Protestant party. B. undertook a mi ion to the King of Navarre, and succeeded in winning him to the side of the reformers. He took a leading part at the celebrated Colloquy of Poi y, and was allowed to preach in Paris. He attended the Prince of Condé during the civil war, and was at the battle of Dreux. B. took part in several other synods and conferences between the opposing religious parties. His wife died in 1588, and he married again in a short time. His energy and activity of mind, like his bodily health, continued unabated till he was nearly 80 years of age. and he only ceased preaching in 1600. Among his works are a Latin translation of the New Testament, and His to ire des Eglises Reformées en France. D. 1605.