Michael Servetus

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Michael Servetus was a 16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist whose anti-Trinitarian views led to his condemnation for heresy and execution in Calvinist Geneva.


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instanceOf Protestant Reformation figure
Spanish person
human
humanist
physician
theologian
alsoKnownAs Michel Servet
Michel de Villeneuve
Miguel Servet
Miguel Serveto y Conesa
birthDate 1511
birthName Miguel Serveto
birthPlace Aragon
Crown of Aragon
Spain
Villanueva de Sigena
citizenship Crown of Aragon
Spain
convictedBy Calvinist authorities in Geneva
convictedOf heresy
deathCause execution by burning at the stake
deathDate 1553-10-27
deathPlace Geneva
Republic of Geneva
educatedAt University of Paris
University of Toulouse
fieldOfWork Renaissance humanism
biblical scholarship
medicine
theology
influenced Unitarianism
anti-Trinitarian movements
knownFor denial of the Trinity
execution for heresy in Geneva
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
Spanish
mannerOfDeath execution
movement Radical Reformation
notableIdea anti-Trinitarianism
critique of Nicene Trinitarian doctrine
early description of pulmonary circulation of the blood
notableWork Christianismi Restitutio
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Dialogorum de Trinitate
occupation humanist
physician
theologian
writer
opposedBy John Calvin
placeOfBurial Geneva (site unknown)
religiousBelief Christianity

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Michael Servetus ("Miguel Servet")
Michael Servetus ("Miguel Serveto y Conesa")
Michael Servetus ("Michel Servet")
alsoKnownAs
Michael Servetus ("Miguel Serveto")
birthName
John Calvin
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