It was into this situation that an heir of John Calvin – the Scot, Robert Haldane – came in 1816. Merle noted that the sources most quoted were not Christ and the Apostles, but Plato, Cicero, and Seneca. Merle d’Aubigne later recounted that in his four years of theological study at the Acadamie “not one hour was consecrated to the study of Holy Scriptures”(1). It is important to note, however, that by the time of the early nineteenth century the influence and savour of John Calvin had long since departed from Geneva and had been substantially replaced by Unitarianism and Socinian.
In his youth he received a thoroughly classical education, and after completing a course in the Humanities, he commenced, at the age of 19, the study of theology at the Acadamie de Geneve.
Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne was born in 1794 to a distinguished Huguenot family in Geneva.
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