PATERSON, JAN [SSNE 5573]

Surname

PATERSON, PATTERSON

First name

JAN, JOHN [or D.D.]

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Jan Paterson is perhaps the same man that Bieganska refers to as D.D. Paterson. Jan was listed as a Scot in Kedany, Lithuania in 1679. D.D. Paterson was nominated rector at the college of that town between 1681 to 1685. While there he established a new way of teaching Polish to the foreign community in the town. Bieganska suggests that he also expanded the library to attract youth from the Jesuit schools, although the town is actually renowned for being predominantly Calvinist and Jewish at this juncture. In the 1690s Paterson became rector at Birze and then cosenior at Zmudz/Zemaitija, both also in Lithuania. Still in Lithuania [although now in Belarus] he became senior at Zawilejski/Vileika from where he sought to attract funding for his alumni in Great Britain [note, Bieganska states England].

T. Stanislaw, Materialy do dziejew kalwinizmu w Wielkim Ksiestwe Litewskiem w XVII wieku/Odrodzienie i reformacja w Polsce, XIV, 1969; T. Stanislaw, Z dziejow kalwinizmu w Wielkim Ksiestwe Litewskim w XVIII w./Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie - Sklodowska, Lublin - Polonia, vol. XXI, 8, 1966; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.6.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, KEDANY, BIRZAI, ZEMAITIJA/ZMUDZ, ZAWILEJSKI/VILEIKA

Arrived 1679-01-01

Departed 1690-12-31

Capacity RECTOR, CO-SENIOR, SENIOR, purpose ACADEMIC