Bénédict Turrettini (9 November 1588 – 4 March 1631), the son of Francesco Turrettini, a native of Lucca, who settled in Geneva in 1579, was born at Zürich on 9 November 1588.
He was ordained a pastor in Geneva in 1612, and became professor of theology in 1618.
[2] In 1620 he represented the Genevan Church at the national synod of Alais, when the decrees of the synod of Dort were introduced into France; and in 1621 he was sent on a successful mission to the states-general of the Netherlands, and to the authorities of the Hanseatic towns, with reference to the defence of Geneva against the threatened attacks of the duke of Savoy.
a defence of the Genevan translation of the Bible, Eine Verteidigung der genser Bibelübersetzung (Défense de la fidélité des traductions de la Bible faites à Genève), against Pierre Cotton's Genève plagiaire.
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