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George Buchanan by A Bronckorst, 1581 ( National Gallery of Scotland ). George Buchanan ( Scottish Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced."
George Buchanan (born February 1506, Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died Sept. 29, 1582, Edinburgh) was a Scottish Humanist, educator, and man of letters, who was an eloquent critic of corruption and inefficiency in church and state during the period of the Reformation in Scotland.
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Aug 26, 2020 · Introduction. Although his name is now virtually unknown beyond academia, George Buchanan (b. 1506–d. 1582) was one of the foremost humanists and Neo-Latinists of the 16th century. His work as a writer, polemicist, and educator had a Europe-wide impact in his own lifetime, and a cultural afterlife so great that it resulted in a large obelisk ...
May 9, 2018 · George Buchanan [1], 1506–82, Scottish humanist. Educated at St. Andrews and Paris, he became (1536) tutor to James V [2]'s illegitimate son James Stuart (later earl of Murray). He was imprisoned (1539) for satirizing the Franciscans but escaped to the Continent.
Oct 16, 2019 · George Buchanan can justifiably be seen as an important ’embryonic’ humanist in a century of significant debate and change in the nature and future of the Christian religion in Scotland and Europe. Buchanan and his role in Scottish and European civic and political life may have been neglected in part because he wrote in Latin, making him ...
Penn Connection. A.B. 1815, A.M. 1818. Founding member of Philomathean Society. George Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 26, 1796, the son of George Buchanan, a prominent doctor and abolitionist, and Loetitia McKean. He attended the College of the University of Pennsylvania, where on October 2, 1813, he was one of thirteen ...
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(1506–82),satirized the Franciscans and was imprisoned at St Andrews. Escaping, he went to the Continent, became a professor at Bordeaux, where he had Montaigne among his pupils, and in 1547 was invited to teach in the university of Coimbra, but was imprisoned by the Inquisition, 1549–51.
