I. CORRESPONDEXCE OF THE SwiSS REFORMERS AND THEIR FrIENDS.
Letters took to a large extent the place of modern newspapers and pamphlets ; hence their large number and importance.
* A. S. Herminjarp : Correspondance des reformateurs dans les pays de lamjue francaise, etc. Geneve et Paris (Fischbacher, 33 rue de Seine), 1866-'86, 7 vols. To be continued. The most complete collection of letters of the Reformers of French Switzerland and their friends, with historical and biographical notes. The editor shows an extraordinary familiarity with the history of the French and Swiss Reformation. The first three volumes embrace the period from 1512 to 1536; vols. IV.-VII. extend from 1536 to 1512, or from the publication of Calvin's Institutes to the acceptance
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of the ecclesiastical ordinances at Geneva. For the following years to the death of Calvin (1564) we have the correspondence in the Strassburg- Brunswick edition of Calvin's works, vols. X.-XX. See below.
II. The History of Geneva before, during, and after the Reformation :
Jac. Spon : Histoire de la ville et de iVtat de Geneve. Lyon, 1680, 2 vols. : revised and enlarged by J. A. Gautier, Geneve, 1730, 2 vols.
J. P. B^RENGER : Histoire de Geneve jusqii'en 1761. Geneve. 1772, 6 vols.
(Grenus) Fraqments biographiques et historiques e.ctraits des registres de Geneve. Geneve, 1815.
M^MOiRES et documents pnblie's par la Socie'le' d'histoire et d'arche'ologie de Geneve. 1840 sqq., vol. I.-XIV.
Francois Bonivard : Les chroniques de Geneve. Publie's par G. Revilliod. Geneve, 1867, 2 vols.
* Amedee Roget (Professor at the University of Geneva, d. Sept. 29, 1883) : Histoire du peuple de Geneve de/iuis la reforme jusqu'a ['escalade. Geneve, 1870-83. 7 vols. From 1536 to 1567. The work was to extend to 1602, but was interrupted by the death of the author. Impartial. The best history of Geneva during the Reformation period. The author was neither a eulogist nor a detractor of Calvin. — By the same : L'e'glise et l'€tat a Geneve du vivant de Calvin. Geneve, 1867 (pp. 91).
Jacq. Aug. Galiffe : Materiaux pour V histoire de Geneve. Geneve, 1829 and '30, 2 vols. 8°; Notices ge'ne'alogiques sur les families genevoises, Geneve, 1829, 4 vols. — J. B. G. Galiffe (son of the former, and Professor of the Academy of Geneva) : Besangon Hugues, libe'rateur de Geneve. Historique de la fondation de I'lndependance Genevoise, Geneve, 1859 (pp.330); Geneve historique et arche'ol., Geneve, 1869; Quelques pages d'histoire exacte, soit les proces criminels intente's a Geneve en 1547, pour haute trahison contre noble Ami Perrin, ancien syndic, conseiller et capitaine-ge'ne'ral de la republique, et contre son accusateur noble Laurent Meigret dit le Magnijique, Geneve, 1862 (135 pp. 4°) ; Nouvelles pages d'histoire exacte soit le proces de Pierre Ameaux, Geneve, 1863 (116 pp. 4°). The Galiffes, father and son, descended from an old Genevese family, are Protestants, but very hostile to Calvin and his institutions, chiefly from the political point of view'. They maintain, on the ground of family papers and the acts of criminal processes, that Geneva was independent and free before Calvin, and that he introduced a system of despotism. "La plupart des faits racontes par le medecin T^yonnais" (Bolsec), says the elder Galiffe (Notices ge'n^alogiques, III. 547), " sont parfaitement vrais." He judges Calvin by the modern theory of toleration which Calvin and Beza with their whole age detested. "Zes veritable protestants genevois," he says, "^taient ceiix qui voulaient que chacun fut libre de penser ce que sa raison lui inspirait, et de ne faire que ce qu'elle approuvait ,* mais que personne ne se permit d'attaquer la religion de son prochain, de se moquer de sa croyance, ou de le scandaliser par des de'monstrations malicieuses et par des fanfaronnades de supifriorite' qui ne prourent que la fatuit€ ridicule de ceux qui se nomment les e'lus." The Galiffes sympathize
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with Ami Perrin, Franrois Favre, Jean Philippe, Jean Lullin, Pierre Vandel, Michael Servet, and all others who were opposed to Calvin. For a fair criticism of the works of the Galiffes, see La France Protestanfe, II. 7G7 sqq., 2d ed.
III. Thk Reformers before Calvin:
* Le Chroniqueur. Ilecueil historique, et journal de I'Helvetie romande, en I'an 1535 eten Van 1586. Edited by L. VuUiemin, 18;J5. Lausanne (Marc Duclos), 326 pp. 4'^. Descriptions and reprints of documents relating to the religious condition in those two years, in the form of a contemporary journal.
Melchior Kirchhofer (of Schaffhausen, 1773-1853) : Das Leben Wiihelm Farels aus den QueUen hearbeitet. Ziirich, 1831 and '33, 2 vols. (pp. 251 and 190, no index). Very good for that time. He also wrote biographies of Haller, Hof nieister, Myconius.
Oh. CheneviJire : Farel, Froment, Viret, reformateurs relig. Geneve, 1835.
H. Jaquemot : Viret, i-e'formateur de Lausanne. Strassburg, 1856.
F. Godet (Professor and Pastor in Neuchatel) : Uistoire de la reformation et du refuge dans le pai/s de Neuchatel. Neuchatel, 1859 (209 pp.). Chiefly devoted to the labors of Farel, but carries the history down to the immigration of French refugees after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
C. Schmidt (of Strassburg) : Wiihelm Farel und Peter Viret. Nach handschriftlirhen und ghichzeitigen Quellcn. Elberfeld, 1860. (In vol. IX. of the " Leben und ausgewiihlte Schriften der Viiter der reform. Kirche.")
T. Cart : Pierre Viret, le r€formateur vaudois. Lausanne, 1864.
C. JuNOD : Farel, rtformateur de la Swisse romande et refformateur de l'€glise de Neuchatel. Neuchatel et Paris, 1865.
IV. Works and Correspondence of John Calvin :
Job. Calvini : Opera qum supersunt omnia, ed. G. Baum, E. Cunitz, E. Reuss, theologi Argentoratenses. Brunsvigae, 1863 sqq. (in the Corp. Reform,^. So far (1892) 48 vols. 4°. The most complete and most critical edition. The three editors died before the completion of their work, but left material for the remaining volumes (vols. 45 sqq.) whicli are edited by Alf. Erichson.
Older Latin edd., Geneva, 1617, 7 vols, folio, and Amctelod., 1667-'71, in 9 vols, folio. Separate Latin editions of the Institutes, by Tholuck (Berlin, 1834 and '46), and of the Commentaries on Genesis by Hengstenberg (Berlin, 1838), on the Psalms (Berlin, 1830-'34), and the New Testament, except the Apocalypse (1833-38, in 7 vols.), by Tholuck. The same books have also been separately republished in French.
An English edition of Calvin's Works, by the "Calvin Translation Society," Edinburgh, 184.3-53, in 52 vols. The Listit.at.es have been translated by Allen (London, 1813, often reprinted by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in Philadelphia), and by Henry Beveridge (Edinburgh, 1840). German translations of his Institnles by Fr. Ad. Krummacher (1834) and by B. Spiess (the first edition of 1536, Wiesbaden, 1887), and of parts of his Comment., by C. F. L. Matthieu (1859 sqq.).