John Mair

John Mair or John Major (also known in Latin as Joannes Majoris and Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467-1550) was a Scottish philosopher.

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John Mair (or ?Major?) was born in about 1467 in Gleghorn, near Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, where he attended grammar school. It is not known whether he attended university in Scotland as a student ? he claimed never to have seen the university town of St Andrews, Fife as a young man ? but he says that in 1491 he attended ?Godshouse?, which later became Christ's College, University of Cambridge, England. In 1492 he matriculated in the University of Paris, France, where he took his Master?s degree in 1494. He became a lecturer (?regent?) in Arts in 1495 and began the study of theology under Jan Standonck in the College of Montaigu. He consorted with scholars of later renown, from his hometown, Robert Walterston, his home country (David Cranston of Glasgow), as well as many of the luminaries of the age, including Erasmus, and perhaps Ignatius of Loyola.

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