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Caspar Olevianus one of the founders of the Reformed Church of Germany, the co-laborer of Ursinus, and one of the compilers of the Heidelberg Catechism, was born August 10, 1536, near Treves. At age 14 Olevianus moved to Paris to study law. There he allied himself with French Protestant students whose spiritual depth and searching friendship soon won him to the Reformation. Afire now with the gospel, he finished law school and began devouring the theology of the Reformers. His insatiable appetite took him to the classrooms of Peter Martyr in Zurich, Theodore Beza in Lausanne, and John Calvin in Geneva.

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• Heidelberg Catechism

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc05/Page_204.html
  New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge article on the history this catechism.

• Olevianus, Kaspar

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc08/Page_235.html
  New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge article on Olevianus and his work on the Heidelberg Catechism

• The Life of Caspar Olevianus

  http://www.meetingpoint.org/jc/jc_eng/jcolev.htm
  Biography of Olevianus.

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