Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/38453
- Name (English)
- Gilbert Burnet
- Short name
- Gilbert Burnet
- Year of birth
- 1643
- Year of death
- 1715
- Short Description
- "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, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. He was always closely associated with the Whig party, and was one of the few close friends in whom King William III confided." - (en.wikipedia.org 24.12.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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