Servetus biography
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Michael Servetus
A Spanish physician and theologian, Michael Servetus enjoyed the distinction of being persecuted by both Catholics and Protestants in an age when the two groups agreed on hardly anything.
Born in Villanueva, Aragon in 1511, Servetus began his career in heresy early, at the age of twenty, with the publication of his De Trinitatis Erroribus (1531). In this work, Servetus disavowed the existence of the Holy Trinity. The Church had been wary of this particular criticism of Christian orthodoxy ever since the Arian controversy in the fourth and fifth centuries, so it should not have surprised Servetus when the Spanish Inquisition ordered his fängelse on 24 May 1532 – indeed, he had the foresight to be out of the country by this time. The historian G. R. Elton has suggested that the Spanish persecution of heretics at this time ‘had rapidly become nothing but a general and obscurantist attack on any form eller gestalt of intellectual enterprise or independence’. Regardless, Servetus w
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New documents reveal Servetus’s life as a student and teacher in Spain
Michael Servetus (c. 1511-1553) was a renowned polymath, who is an important figure in the history of many disciplines. His nontrinitarianism led him to being condemned by Catholic authorities in France and, upon fleeing to Protestant Geneva, he was burnt at the stake for heresy. Despite his significance, until recently, there were no documents about him before 1531 and much of his biography is constructed from his declarations in trials before prosecutors. However, 13 new documents have been discovered, and they provide insight into this intriguing person and his education. Before he was 14, Servetus studied Latin Grammar (and its associated indirect disciplines: Rhetoric, Poetry and History) in the Studio of Sariñena, in Aragón. He then went on to study at Saragossa’s Studium Generale of Arts.
In 1477 the old Studium of Arts was granted permission to grant degrees in the Arts. The Head of the Studium w
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Michael Servetus
16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
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Michael Servetus | |
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| Born | c. 1509-1511; possibly 29 September 1511 Villanueva de Sigena, Aragon, or Tudela, Navarre |
| Died | (1553-10-27)27 October 1553 (aged 42) Geneva, Republic of Geneva |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Title | Theologian, physician, editor, translator |
| Theological work | |
| Era | Renaissance |
| Tradition or movement | Renaissance humanism |
| Main interests | Theology, medicine |
| Notable ideas | Nontrinitarian Christology, pulmonary circulation |
Michael Servetus (;[1]Spanish: Miguel Servet; French: Michel Servet; also known as Michel Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first Europe