BIOGRAPHY
Scottish historian and humanist scholar George Buchanan (Scottish
Gaelic: Seras Buchanan; February 1506-28 September 1582) lived in
Edinburgh. Buchanan was ""the deepest intellectual Scotland produced in
the sixteenth century,"" according to historian Keith Brown. During the
Scottish Reformation, his philosophy of opposing regal usurpation was
widely adopted. The ease with which King James VII was overthrown in
1689, according to Brown, demonstrates the influence of Buchananite
ideals.