George Buchanan

George Buchanan ( * 1506 in Killearn, † September 28, 1582 ) was a Scottish humanist philosopher and historian.

The son of a minor landed gentry studied at the universities of Paris and St Andrews. After he had written satirical writings against the clergy of the Catholic Church, Buchanan had to flee in 1539 from Scotland to France. He taught for a time in Bordeaux, the Collège de Guyenne, where Michel de Montaigne was one of his students. From 1547 to 1552 Buchanan lived in Portugal, where he teaches at the University of Coimbra.

After he had converted to the Protestant faith, Buchanan returned to Scotland and still was a tutor of the Catholic Queen Mary Stuart. When Mary Stuart's husband, Henry Stuart Darnley, was murdered, Buchanan broke with the Queen, as he thought they would be involved in the assassination. In 1571 he denounced them publicly, and then became one of their bitterest enemies. After her dismissal and banishment Buchanan taught the young James VI. ( the later King James I of England).

Buchanan's best-known works are on the one hand the history of Scotland in Latin ( Rerum Scoticarum historia ), as well as the Latin dialogue De Jure Regni apud Scotos in which it opts for a limited form of monarchy. From the work of the well-known set of Kings exist by the will of the people comes from ( kings exist by the will of the people). Also Buchanan became famous for his Latin tragedies Baptiste and Jephthes during his lifetime. In the Latin didactic poem De Sphaera ( in five books ) Buchanan defended in discussion of the poem De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco the Ptolemaic world view against the new theory of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Writings

  • Rervm Scoticarvm Historia / Avctore George Bvchanano Scoto ... - [ Sl]: [sn ], 1583 - ( Edimbvrgi: Arbuthnetus ). . Including: ACCESSIT De Ivre Regni apud Scotos Dialogus, Same date Georgio Bvchanano auctore. Also available as microfiche output:. München [ ua]: Saur, 1993.
  • Baptiste immersive Calumnia, before 1544 ( unpublished contemporary before 1577. )
  • Jephthes immersive vote, Tragoedia, 1544
  • The Sphera of George Buchanan, by James Naiden, 1951.
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