Alexander Arbuthnot (1538-1583) was a Scottish ecclesiastic poet. Having studied languages and philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, and civil law under the famous Jacques Cujas at Bourges in France, he took ecclesiastical orders, and became in his own country a zealous supporter of the Reformation. Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ... 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... This article is about the Christian buildings of worship. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... The University of Aberdeen is a university in Aberdeen, Scotland, founded by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen in 1495 as Kings College. ... Jacques Cujas or Cujacius (or as he called himself, Jacques de Cujas) (1520 – 1590) was a French legal expert. ... The vaulted nave of Bourges Cathedral Bourges (pop. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...

He was in 1569 elected principal of King's College, Aberdeen, which office he retained until his death. He played an active part in the stirring church politics of the period, and was twice moderator of the kirk, and a member of the commission of inquiry into the condition the University of St. Andrews (1583). Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... Kings College, Aberdeen was founded in 1495 by Bishop William Elphinstone. ... A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ... University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410-1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the United Kingdom. ... 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...

The correctness of his attitude on all public questions won for him the condemnation of Catholic writers; he is not included in Nicol Burne's list of "periurit apostatis"; but his policy and influence were misliked by James VI, who, when the Assembly had elected Arbuthnot to the charge of the church of St. Andrews, ordered him to return to his duties at King's College. James VI and I King of England, Scotland and Ireland James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. ...

He had been for a time minister of Arbuthnott in Kincardineshire. His extant works are three poems, The Praises of Wemen (4 lines), On Luve (10 lines), and The Miseries of a Pure (poor) Scholar (189 lines), and a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica, of which an English continuation, by Dr. John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh. The praise of women in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his age; and its geniality helps us to understand the author's popularity with his contemporaries. Kincardineshire, also known as The Mearns (from A Mhaoirne meaning The Stewartry) is a traditional county on the coast of Northeast Scotland. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Arbuthnot must not be confused with his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer, who produced the first edition of George Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582. George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) was a Sixteenth Century Scottish, Humanist theorist, see George Buchanan (humanist) Sir George Buchanan (1854 - 1924) was a United Kingdom, Diplomat who was British ambassador to Russia during the Russian Revolution in 1917, see George Buchanan (diplomat) Sir George Buchanan was a British civil engineer active... Events January 15 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland February 24 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. ...

References

• The Scottish Studies Foundation, brief bio
• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.