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Sebastien Castellio, born Châteillon, (1515-1563), humanist, theologian, translator. Educated in Lyon and at the Collège de la Trinité, Castellio became fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In 1540, he moved to Strasbourg and then to Geneva, where he worked briefly under John Calvin and was appointed rector of the Genevan collège. Doctrinal disagreements with Calvin – particularly regarding predestination and biblical interpretation – led to his resignation in 1544. He later settled in Basel, where he lectured at the university and lived in modest circumstances. His most famous polemical work, De haereticis, an sint persequendi (1554), challenged the execution of Michael Servetus and opposed religious persecution of any kind. Castellio also produced important biblical translations, including a Latin version of the Bible. Treccani