Corderius was a brilliant pedagogian and grammarian who contributed much to the recognition of pedagogy, rhetoric, and linguistics. Return to Geneva and last years In 1559, Corderius left the Vaud with Pierre Viret and Theodore Beza. They went to Geneva because of difficulties with the government of Berne. Once in Geneva, Corderius met John Calvin again. In 1562 the Geneva Council offered Corderius another teaching position, and he accepted. Thus Corderius spent the last period of life as he had twenty years before, teaching a class. He died on September 8 of 1564. Corderius was buried at the cemetery of Plainpalais, as he wished, near the presumed location of Calvin's tomb (Calvin did not want the location of his tomb to be known). He possessed special tact and liking for teaching children, and wrote several books for them; the most famous is his Colloquia (Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor), which has passed through innumerable editions, and was used in schools for three centuries after his time. Cordier continued teaching at Bourdeaux and Paris. He also wrote: Principia Latine loquendi scribendique, sive selecta quaedam ex Epistolis Ciceronis De Corrupti Sermonis apud Gallos Emendatione et Latine loquendi Ratione On the Corrpution of Enmendation of the Word. This work had many French editions, some from the famous editor Rovillius among others. On the Spanish translations of this work, the scholar González Echeverría proved at ISHM that Michel de Villeneuve (better known as Michael Servetus) carried out this task in the edition of 1551, at the workshop of a friend, the printer Jean Frellon. These translations were anonymous, just like his Distichs of Cato. Michael de Villeneuve had to be careful, for Corderius and the printer Robert Estienne I (who printed many of Corderius' works) were very close to Calvin, and were also part of the Geneva Council. De Corrupti Sermonis apud Gallos Emendatione et Latine loquendi Ratione De Corrupti Sermonis Emendatione Libellus De syllabarum quantitate Conciones sacrae viginti rex Galliae Catonis disticha de moribus (with Latin and French translation) Remontrances et exhortations au roi et aux grands de son royaume References 1480s births 1564 deaths French educators French Calvinist and Reformed theologians 16th-century Latin-language writers