STUART, DAVID [SSNE 4914]

Surname

STUART

First name

DAVID

Title/rank

PROFESSOR

Nationality

SCOT

Region

Social status

Education

UNIVERSITY

Religion

Text source

Davis Stuart was born in the early 1600's and died in Paris in 1669. He taught Philosophy in Leiden as a lecturer between 1661-1662 and thereafter as Professor of Metaphysics in the Philosophy School until his death in 1669. In 1663 Philip Skippon heard a lecture br Dr John Antonide Vander and noted Dr David Stuartus as one of his auditors on the section to do with diaphram and lungs. Cf. [SSNE 7217] and [SSNE 7220].

Philip Skippon esquire, An Account of a Journey made thro' part of the Low-Countries, Italy and France (1663). Reproduced in: A Collection of Voyages and Travels some now first printed from Original Manuscripts others now first published in English in six volumes (3rd edition, London, 1746), VI, p.413; C. A. Siegenbeek et. al. (eds.), Album Scholasticum Academiae Luguno-Batavae MDLXXV - MCMXL (Brill, Leiden, 1941), p.148.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, LEIDEN

Arrived 1661-10-06, as LECTURER

Departed 1669-12-31, as PROFESSOR

Capacity MEDICAL ACADEMIC, PROFESSOR, LECTURER, purpose ACADEMIC