Benoit Turretin the son of Francesco Turretini, a native of Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...

, who settled in Geneva

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Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

 in 1579, was born at Zurich

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 in November 1588. He was ordained a pastor

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 in Geneva in 1612, and became professor of theology in 1618.

In 1620 he represented the Genevan Church at the national synod of Alais, when the decrees of the synod of Dort

Synod of Dort

The Synod of Dort was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618-1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism. The first meeting was on November 13, 1618, and the final meeting, the 154th, was on May 9, 1619...

 were introduced into France

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; and in 1621 he was sent on a successful mission to the states-general of the Netherlands

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, and to the authorities of the Hanseatic

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 towns, with reference to the defence of Geneva against the threatened attacks of the duke of Savoy

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. He published in 1618-1620 (2 vols.) a defence of the Genevan translation of the Bible

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, Eine Verteidigung der genser Bibelubersetzung (Defense de la fidelité des traductions de la Bible faites a Geneve), against P. Cotton's Geneve plagiaire. He died on 4 March 1631.

His son was Francis Turretin

Francis Turretin

Francis Turretin was a Swiss-Italian Protestant theologian.Turretin is especially known as a zealous opponent of the theology of the Academy of Saumur , as an earnest defender of the Calvinistic orthodoxy represented by the Synod of Dort, and as one of the authors of the Helvetic...

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