Charles Borgeaud

He continued his studies in Germany, at the University of Jena where he earned a degree in Philosophy.

In London he found important documents that would form his doctrine and guide him in his next work.

Modern democracies emerged thanks to the religious reforms and policies of the sixteenth century.

In 1896 the University of Geneva offered him the chair in History of Swiss Institutional Politics.

1559-1798 ("The History of the Geneva University: Calvin's Academy", 1900) by the scholar Paul Seippel and historians Antoine Guilland and Wilhelm Oechsli.