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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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Mar 25, 2024 · George Buchanan, (born February 1506, Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died Sept. 29, 1582, Edinburgh), 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.
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.
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.
Buchanan, George Born: 1506, Killearn, Scotland Died: 1582, Edinburgh, Scotland David McOmish School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Abstract George Buchanan was a humanist writer and educationalist. His prolific literary and admin-istrative activities exerted a significant influ-ence upon intellectual culture in ...
Description. George Buchanan was a significant Scottish historian in the late sixteenth century. This book, his history of Scotland to his own time was printed shortly before Buchanan’s death in 1582.
