Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563)
 1515-63,
French Protestant theologian. Castalion was with Calvin at
Strasbourg and Geneva until he split with Calvin over doctrinal
differences and moved to Basel. He obtained a chair of Greek
literature in the university there. In the preface to his
Latin translation of the Bible (1551) Castalion defended religious
toleration. In 1554 he published, under the pseudonym Martinus
Bellius, Concerning Heretics (tr. 1935), in which he protested
the execution of Servetus. The name also appears as Castellion
and Châtillon. See Stefan Zweig, Right to Heresy (1936).
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