John Calvin (1509–1564)

John Calvin, the leading second-generation reformer of Geneva, worked to implement a vision of discipline led by church consistories, a model which would later inspire reform efforts in a variety of places, including France, the Netherlands, as well as among Presbyterians and Puritans in England.

René Boyvin (ca. 1525–ca. 1598), portrait of John Calvin (1509–1564) at the age of 53, engraving, 1562; source: www.gallica.bnf.fr, Permalink: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41499759x.