Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)

Andrew Gordon ( born June 15, 1712 Cofforach, Scotland; † August 22, 1751 in Erfurt) was a Scottish theologian, philosopher, physicist and Benedictine monk.

Life

George Gordon was born the son of an old Scottish noble family in Cofforach (Scotland) and christened with the name George. At the age of 12 he traveled to Regensburg to enter there in the Benedictine Schotten Seminary of St. Jacob in Regensburg. As a Catholic Scot he had no way to get into his home access to high office. In Regensburg, he completed a 5 -year-old high school studies. Abbot Bernard Baillie enabled Gordon educational trips to Austria, France and Italy, especially Rome. Gordon returned in 1732 to Regensburg back. On February 24, 1732, he entered the novitiate and received the religious name of Andrew.

He began in the monastery with the study of scholastic philosophy under Gallus Leith, who was appointed in 1735 at Erfurt University as professor of philosophy. Gordon continued to study at the Dominican Iselbrecher, where he also held his theological disputation. In the same year Andrew Gordon was ordained a priest, after he graduated from the Benedictine University of Salzburg, a law degree, where he studied law and theology. 1737 he finished his studies in philosophy and theology as "very good " and received the legal examination with distinction. He then became professor of philosophy at the University of Erfurt.