Hector Boece

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Hector Boece.

Hector Boece (Latin: Boethius, born in 1465, died 1536) is a Scottish philosopher and historian. Curriculum vitae

He was born in Dundee and educated there. He then studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he met Erasmus, with whom he became a close friend. In 1497 he became professor of philosophy at the university. In 1500 he was persuaded to leave Paris and return to Aberdeen and was offered to direct the newly created James IV University in Aberdeen.

In 1522 he published the Vitae Episcoporum Murthlacens et Aberdonensium, and in 1527 the Gentis Scotorum (History of Scotland), in which he described the history of Scotland to the throne of James III. This second work is his most important piece.

At the beginning of the 1530s, the learned Giovanni Ferrerio, encouraged by Abbot Robert Reid of the Kinloss monastery, wrote the continuation of Boece's story, extending it to the end of James III's reign. At the end of 1534 Boece became rector of Boece Fyva. He died in Aberdeen two years later at age 71.

His description of Macbeth was used by Shakespeare in the tragedy of Macbeth. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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