John Jamieson
Scots lexicographer
Rev John Jamieson FRSE FSA Scot FRSL (3 Mairch 1759 – 12 Julie 1838) wis a Scots meenister o releegion, lexicographer, philologist an antiquary. His maist important wirk is the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808 & 1825).
John Jamieson | |
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 Rev John Jamieson bi John Kay, 1790 | |
| Born | 3 Mairch 1759 Glesga |
| Dee'd | 12 July 1838 (aged 79) George Square, Edinburgh |
Restin place | St. Cuthbert's Cemetery, Edinburgh |
| Naitionality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Eddication | Glasgow Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Glesga University (1768-71) Edinburgh University (1775-6) College of New Jersey (DD 1795) |
| Thrift | Licensed meenister (1781) Meenister o secessionist congregation Farfar, Angus Meenister o the Nicolson Street Antiburgher Church, Edinburgh (1797–1830) |
| Notable wirk(s) | "Etymological Dictionary of The Scottish Language" (1808) "History of the Culdees" (1811) "Views of the Royal Palaces of Scotland" (1828) |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Charlotte Watson (dee'd 1837) |
| Notes Fallae o the Ryal Society o Edinburgh (1803) Fallae o the Society o Antiquaries o Scotland (1815) Fallae o the American Antiquarian Society Fallae o the Roal Leeterar Society Member o the Hieland Society | |
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