Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Gualterus Scott

Gualteri Scott effigies anno 1822 ab Henrico Raeburn picta; in Pinacotheca Nationali Scotiae, Edinburgi)

Gualterus Scott Eques,[1] vel Walterus Scotus,[2] vulgo denuo Sir Walter Scott (natus die 15 Augusti 1771 Edimburgi; mortuus die 21 Septembris 1832 Abbotsford prope Melrose Roxburgensis), alumnus Universitatis Edinburgensis, fuit iuris peritus, poeta et scriptor Scotus (sicut cognomen ipsum indicat) praecipue fabularum historicarum.

Dictum personale eius erat "Clausus tutus ero" (anagramma nominis "Walterus Scotus").[3]

  1. 1792, Scott Disputatio juridica, ad tit. XXIV. lib. XLVIII. Pand. de cadaveribus damnatorum; quam . . . pro advocati munere consequendo, publicae disquisitioni subjicit Gualterus Scott.
  2. Vide infra.
  3. John Gibson Lockhart, Life of Sir Walter Scott, p. 385.

Previous Page Next Page