Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, ...
Gilbert Burnet
Scottish historian
Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. Wikipedia
Born: September 18, 1643, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Died: March 17, 1715 (age 71 years), Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom
Children: Thomas Burnet, William Burnet, and Gilbert Burnet
Great-grandparents: Alexander Gordon, 4th of Lesmoir, Katherine Arbuthnot, Alexander Burnet of Leys, and more
Grandchildren: Sir Thomas Burnet and Mary Burnet
Grandparents: Alexander Burnett of Leys and Katherine Gordon
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Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715). English bishop and historian, was born in Edinburgh on the 15th of September 1643, of an ancient and distinguished Scottish house.
Gilbert Burnet was born in 1643, when England and Scotland were vexed by religious and political conflict; and he became a churchman early in life.
Gilbert Burnet lived from 18 September 1643 to 17 March 1715. He was a theologian and historian who became Bishop of Salisbury.
Gilbert Burnet. (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury and historian. Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 25 portraits
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715: Bishop Gilbert Burnet as educationist, being his Thoughts on education, with notes and life of the author (Printed for the ...
412 free public domain works of Gilbert Burnet via Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL), a database of digital books ca. 1500-1800.
For historians of the late seventeenth century, Gilbert Burnet's History of My. Own Time remains a crucial source. However, his History of the Reformation ...
Bishop Burnet's history of his own time. From the Restoration of King Charles II to the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne ...
Gilbert Burnet, later bishop of Salisbury. Burnet recorded their religious discussions in Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1680).