MURDISSON, JOHANNES [SSNE 4915]

Surname

MURDISSON, MORRISON, MORDISON, MURDISONIUS, MORDISONIUS, MURDISINIUS

First name

JOHANNES, JOHN

Nationality

SCOT

Education

UNIVERSITY

Text source

Johannes Mordison/Morrison was born in Scotland in 1568 and attended Helmstadt University in 1588. He then went to the Dutch Republic in 1598, with a view to founding a school in Middelburg. Between 1599 and 1605 he acted as a lecturer and then senior lecturer in Physics and the Art of Rhetoric at Leiden university. He died in Leiden in 1605 and was replaced by fellow Scot Gilbert Jachaeus.

 

Sources:

T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany, (Edinburgh, 1902), p.313; C. A. Siegenbeek et. al. (eds.), Album Scholasticum Academiae Luguno-Batavae MDLXXV - MCMXL (Brill, Leiden, 1941), p.108.

Cornelis de Waard, '[Murdisson, Johannes]' in P.C. Molhuysen, P.J. Blok (eds.), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, II (Leiden, 1912), pp. 967-968.

 

This entry updated by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

SCOTLAND, HELMSTADT UNIVERSITY

Arrived 1588-01-01

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC

DUTCH REPUBLIC, LEIDEN

Arrived 1599-01-01, as LECTURER

Departed 1605-12-31, as SENIOR LECTURER

Capacity LECTURER, ACADEMIC, purpose ACADEMIC