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Andrew Melville (1 August 1545 – 1622) was a Scottish scholar, theologian, poet and religious reformer. [4] His fame encouraged scholars from the European continent to study at Glasgow and St. Andrews. He was born at Baldovie, on 1 August 1545, the youngest son of Richard Melville of Baldovie, and Geills, daughter of Thomas Abercrombie of ...
- 1 August 1545, Baldovie, Scotland
- 1622 (aged 76–77), Sedan, France
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Mar 26, 2024 · Andrew Melville (born Aug. 1, 1545, Baldovie, Angus, Scot.—died 1622, Sedan, Fr.) was a scholar and Reformer who succeeded John Knox as a leader of the Scottish Reformed Church, giving that church its Presbyterian character by replacing bishops with local presbyteries, and gaining international respect for Scottish universities.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Andrew Melville. (1545-1622) Andrew Melville was born at Baldovy near Montrose, Angus in the east of Scotland. Both his father and mother died when he was an infant and Melville was raised by his eldest brother Richard. He learned Latin at the grammar school of Montrose, and Greek from a French tutor who had settled in Montrose.
Jun 27, 2018 · Andrew Melville [1], 1545–1622, Scottish religious reformer and scholar. He studied abroad, came under the influence of Theodore Beza [2], and was a professor at Geneva. He was principal (1574–80) of the Univ. of Glasgow; in 1580 he became principal of St. Mary's College, St.
Mar 25, 2024 · Andrew Melville is usually remembered for his ‘God’s silly vassal’ quote, but there was much more to this dogged and determined personality. It was Melville who took the Scottish universities by the scruff of the neck, shook them free of Romanism and Aristotelian methodology, reformed and refined them, and set them on a path which would ...
Andrew Melville was born near Montrose in 1545. Before Melville, the Reformers had been mostly concerned with how people were saved and that they worshipped God in the right way. However Melville wanted to make sure that the church was organised the way it was in the New Testament. He said that the church should be Presbyterian.
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Oct 28, 2022 · Abstract. A major figure of the Scottish Reformation, a founder of Presbyterianism, and intellectual force behind educational reforms at the Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews, and Sedan, Andrew Melville was a fierce defender of the independence of the church from government control in Scotland. His reputation as a scholar of languages, the ...
