Adam Mitchell Hunter
Rev Adam Mitchell Hunter FRSE DLitt (1871–1955) was a Scottish minister, mathematician, astronomer and author of church history.
Life
[edit]He was born in Edinburgh in 1871. He was educated at George Watsons College then studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh and Marburg University in central Germany.
He was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1897, and became minister of Cardross Parish Church. He simultaneously lectured in church history at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. In 1922, he left Cardross and took on the role of librarian at New College, Edinburgh. In 1923, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Young Simpson, Hector Macpherson, Charles Glover Barkla and John Alison. In 1941, he published an article about the Cardross Case. He resigned from the society in 1946.[1]
Hunter died in 1955.
Publications
[edit]- The Teachings of Calvin: A Modern Interpretation (1920)
- The Celebration of Communion in Scotland since the Reformation (1929)
- New College, Edinburgh: A Centenary History (1946)
- The Age of Daniel and the Exile
References
[edit]- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- 1871 births
- 1955 deaths
- Clergy from Edinburgh
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Academics of the University of Glasgow
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Scottish non-fiction writers
- Historians of Christianity
- British historians of religion
- 19th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland
- 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers
- 20th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland
- 20th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers