biography
pronunciation:
[servaytus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1511–53)
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| biography:
| Theologian and physician, born in Tudela, N Spain. He studied law, worked largely in France and Switzerland, and while studying medicine at Paris discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood. In his theological writings he denied the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and angered both Catholics and Protestants. He escaped the Inquisition, but was burnt by Calvin in Geneva for heresy. |
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