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George Buchanan

1506 - 1582

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George Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth-century Scotland produced." His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation. Brown says the ease with which King James VII was deposed in 1689 shows the power of Buchananite ideas. His treatise De Jure Regni apud Scotos, published in 1579, discussed the doctrine that the source of all political power is the people, and that the king is bound by those conditions under which the supreme power was first committed to his hands, and that it is lawful to resist, even to punish, tyrants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Buchanan is the 285th most popular historian (down from 265th in 2019), the 2,706th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,340th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, George Buchanan ranks 285 out of 561. Before him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Halil İnalcık, Claude Cahen, Zuo Qiuming, Timothy Garton Ash, and Georges Lefebvre. After him are Gustave Schlumberger, Abraham Geiger, Marino Sanuto the Younger, Stéphane Courtois, Wilhelm von Bode, and Yahya of Antioch.

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Among people born in 1506, George Buchanan ranks 9. Before him are Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Peter Faber, Hwang Jini, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, and Juliana of Stolberg. After him is Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz. Among people deceased in 1582, George Buchanan ranks 16. Before him are Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine, Diego, Prince of Asturias, Zhang Juzheng, Francisco de Toledo, Charlotte of Bourbon, and Louis, Duke of Montpensier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Buchanan ranks 2,707 out of 8,785. Before him are Pat Crerand (1939), Clive Sinclair (1940), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), George Dawe (1781), Sarah Gilbert (1962), and Russell T Davies (1963). After him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Ian Bannen (1928), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Simon Callow (1949), and Roy Thomas Baker (1946).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, George Buchanan ranks 27. Before him are H. J. R. Murray (1868), Tony Judt (1948), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. H. M. Jones (1904), John Foxe (1516), and Timothy Garton Ash (1955). After him are Quentin Skinner (1940), Agnes Arber (1879), Gerald of Wales (1146), Paul Kennedy (1945), Christopher Hill (1912), and A. J. P. Taylor (1906).

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