Wedderburn, David
Record IDcnp02308614
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp02308614
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Biographical Data1580 - 1646
Last Edit2022-01-14
General Note
burgess of Dundee, various ones in pre-Reformation period. English translations of the bible are said to have found a ready market there.
Scottish classical scholar, Latin grammarian, philologist, and poet. Baptised in the parish church of Aberdeen, 1580, eldest son of William Wedderburn, a burgess of Aberdeen. Some confusion as to where he completed his education, possibly Marischal Coll. or St Andrews. Master at the grammar school in Aberdeen April 1602, resigned to pursue a clerical vocation but returned 1603-40. Granted professorship at Marischal Coll., 1614-24, resigned to raise standards in the grammar school. Appointed humanist at King's Coll., 1619. Poet laureate of Aberdeen, and awarded freedom of the city, 1620. Composed many Latin poems but best known for his work Short Introduction to Grammar, first published 1632, which became a standard text in grammar schools in Scotland. Also produced his Institutiones grammaticae and Vocabula. Given freedom of Dundee 1632. Died Aberdeen, 1646.
Schottischer Altphilologe und Dichter
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Further Biographical Data1580-1646
16c
bap. 1580, d.1646
1580-1646
ActivityLeb-Dat.[?]: -; Schulmann zu Amsterdam, vor1664e
Philologe (gnd)
Schriftsteller (gnd)
Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)
Großbritannien
Names
HeadingWedderburn, David
used in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands, Den Haag (Netherlands)
Wedderburn, David
used in: Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany)
Wedderburn, David
used in: Early Book Owners in Britain
Wedderburn, David
used in: The University of Aberdeen Library
Wedderburn, David
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Variant NameWedderburnus, David
Wedderburn, David
Wedderburnus, Davidus
Sources
Found inESL 158. — LOC. — DNB. — King's Fasti 46. — Marischal Fasti 63, 185. — LCAuth. — WBIS
Imprint SourcesPersius enucleatus, sive Commentarius exactissimus... / By David Wedderburnus..., 1664
A short introduction to grammar. - 1632
Abredonia atrata, sub obitum Jacobi VI.. - 1625
In obitu sumae spei principis Henrici lessus. - 1613
Institutiones grammaticae. - 1633
Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Persius. - 1664
Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae sex. - 1664
Vivat rex, seu proseuktikon pro incolumitate Caroli. - 1633