About Noël Béda
Lived 1470 – 1537 (aged 66–67). Noël Béda was a French theologian.
Natalis Beda (French: Noël Beda; c. 1470 – 18 January 1537, Mont-Saint-Michel) was a French civil magistrate (syndic) and Catholic theologian best known for his staunch opposition to humanism and the Protestant Reformation, including the Meaux group.
He was professor of theology, principal of the Collège de Montaigu from 1504 to 1513, and dean of the Sorbonne's Faculty of Theology.
Charged by the Sorbonne with examining the doctrinal conformity of Erasmus' paraphrase of the Gospel of Luke, he identified some fifty condemnable propositions.
Beda was satirized by François Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Works
Annotations (1526) Adversus clandestinos Lutheranos (1529)
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Who was Noël Béda?
Magister artium, Theol. Dr. Collège de Montaigu 1494, 1508
When was Noël Béda born?
Noël Béda was born in 1470.
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Noël Béda died on 8 January 1537.
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Noël Béda was a theologian.
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Noël Béda was French.
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