Robert Rollock (1555-1599) - Revision history

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−	[[File:Edi uni eu 0068 624x544.jpg \| border \| 225 px \| right \| thumb \| Robert Rollock, by unknown artist (Edinburgh University Fine Art Collection)]]'''Robert Rollock (1555–1599)''' was the first Regent (1583) and first [[Principal]] (1586) of the University of Edinburgh.	+	[[File:Edi uni eu 0068 624x544.jpg \| border \| 225 px \| right \| thumb \| Robert Rollock, by unknown artist (Edinburgh University Fine Art Collection)]]'''Robert Rollock (1555–1599)''' was the first [[Opening of Edinburgh University, 1583#The Regenting System\|Regent]] (1583) and first [[Principal]] (1586) of the University of Edinburgh.

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 == Edinburgh University's First Regent ==
-In September 1583, the Town Council of Edinburgh were seeking a regent for their University, which was due to [[Opening of Edinburgh University, 1583 | open]] in October of that year. They approached Rollock on the advice of  the Rev. [[James Lawson]], First Minister of Edinburgh, and chief promoter of the scheme to establish a university in Edinburgh. Rollock was interviewed by the Town Council and appointed Regent, initially for a one-year period, on 14 September 1583.
+In September 1583, the Town Council of Edinburgh were seeking a regent for their University, which was due to [[Opening of Edinburgh University, 1583 | open]] in October of that year. They approached Rollock on the advice of  the Rev. [[James Lawson (1538–1584)]], First Minister of Edinburgh, and chief promoter of the scheme to establish a university in Edinburgh. Rollock was interviewed by the Town Council and appointed Regent, initially for a one-year period, on 14 September 1583.
 When the university [[Opening of Edinburgh University, 1583 | opened]] on 14 October of that year, Rollock assumed sole responsibility for the First Year or ‘Bajan’ class. Under the regenting system then common in Scottish universities, Rollock remained as tutor to the 1583 intake throughout the four years of their Master of Ats degree, teaching all subjects himself. The curriculum was drawn up by Rollock in consultation with the Town Council, and was deeply influenced by the humanistic reforms introduced by Andrew Melville at the universities of Glasgow and St Andrews. A pioneering class in human anatomy, however, was Rollock’s own innovation.

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 == Rollock Papers in Edinburgh University Library ==
-Edinburgh University Library holds a manuscript (in an unknown hand) of Rollock's ''Commentarius in primam beati Apostoli Petri Epistolam'' (Dc.4.68). The ''Commentarius'' is followed by a transcription of Latin epitaphs and elegies on Rollock by friends and colleagues, including two future Principal of Edinburgh University, [[Henry Charteris]] and [[John Adamson (1576–1651?)]]. In the University's [[Laing Collection]], there is also a signature to discharge by Rollock, 30 January 1578 (La.II.146) and his demision of the parsonage of Forteviot (La.II.227).
+Edinburgh University Library holds a manuscript (in an unknown hand) of Rollock's ''Commentarius in primam beati Apostoli Petri Epistolam'' (Dc.4.68). The ''Commentarius'' is followed by a transcription of Latin epitaphs and elegies on Rollock by friends and colleagues, including two future [[Principal]]s of Edinburgh University, [[Henry Charteris (c1565–1628)|Henry Charteris]] and [[John Adamson (1576–1651?)]]. In the University's [[Laing Collection]], there is also a signature to discharge by Rollock, 30 January 1578 (La.II.146) and his demision of the parsonage of Forteviot (La.II.227).
 == Sources ==

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 == Later Years ==
-Rollock served as moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1597 (in recognition of his role as a peacemaker in the dispute which broke out between [[James VI and I | King]] and Kirk in 1596). Rollock had long preached informally in the ‘New Church’ at St Giles, and in 1598 was appointed Minister of Greyfriars’ Kirk in Edinburgh. Always in delicate health, and perhaps overworked, Rollock died on 8 or 9 February 1599. On his death-bed, he desired that the University should remain first and foremost a place of spiritual advancement, and expressed the wish that no Professors of Law and Medicine be introduced. He also requested that his former pupil [[Henry Charteris]] be appointed his successor.
+Rollock served as moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1597 (in recognition of his role as a peacemaker in the dispute which broke out between [[James VI and I | King]] and Kirk in 1596). Rollock had long preached informally in the ‘New Church’ at St Giles, and in 1598 was appointed Minister of Greyfriars’ Kirk in Edinburgh. Always in delicate health, and perhaps overworked, Rollock died on 8 or 9 February 1599. On his death-bed, he desired that the University should remain first and foremost a place of spiritual advancement, and expressed the wish that no Professors of Law and Medicine be introduced. He also requested that his former pupil [[Henry Charteris (c1565–1628)|Henry Charteris]] be appointed his successor.
 == Writings ==

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 == Principal and Professor of Theology ==
-[[File:0025635c.jpg | border | 225 px | right | thumb | First signatories of the 'sponsio' or Confession of Faith, 1585-87, including Robert Rollock, [[First Laureation & Degrees Album|Laureation Album]], Edinburgh University Archives (EUA IN1/ADS/STA/1/1)]] When his class graduated in 1587, Rollock did not resume the regenting cycle with a new Bajan class. He had been appointed the University’s first Principal in 1586, and was now relieved of everyday tutoring duties. In November 1587, he was appointed Professor of Theology with the consent of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. In this capacity, he offered instruction in Divinity to those graduates who wished to stay on to prepare for the Ministry. The posts of Principal and Professor of Theology would remain combined until the resignation of [[Henry Charteris]] in 1620.
+[[File:0025635c.jpg | border | 225 px | right | thumb | First signatories of the 'sponsio' or Confession of Faith, 1585-87, including Robert Rollock, [[First Laureation & Degrees Album|Laureation Album]], Edinburgh University Archives (EUA IN1/ADS/STA/1/1)]] When his class graduated in 1587, Rollock did not resume the regenting cycle with a new Bajan class. He had been appointed the University’s first Principal in 1586, and was now relieved of everyday tutoring duties. In November 1587, he was appointed Professor of Theology with the consent of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. In this capacity, he offered instruction in Divinity to those graduates who wished to stay on to prepare for the Ministry. The posts of Principal and Professor of Theology would remain combined until the resignation of [[Henry Charteris (c1565–1628)]] in 1620.
 Rollock saw himself not only as an educator but as a spiritual guide to his students, keeping a close eye on their personal religion. As Principal, he conducted ‘family worship’ with the students every evening, instructed them in the knowledge of God and their religious duties, every Wednesday, and on Sunday accompanied all the students to St Giles’ Cathedral for the morning and afternoon sermons.

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 [[File:2014-05-12 15.49.22(1).jpg | border | 150 px | right | thumb | Latin verse elegy on the death of Robert Rollock by Robert Pont, Edinburgh University Library (Dc.4.68)]] As a teacher, Rollock encouraged student to apply the Ramist techniques of logical analysis to reach an exact understanding of Scripture. He employed the same approach in his many published theological works, which include ''Analysis dialectica … in Pauli apostoli epistolam ad Romanos'' (1594), ''In epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos … commentarius analytica methodo conscriptus'' (1596), ''In epistolam Pauli apostoli ad Philemonen analysis logica'' (1598); ''Analysis logica in epistolam Pauli apostoli ad Galatas'' (1602), and ''Analysis logica in epistolam ad Hebraeos'' (1605). Rollock achieved a significant international profile as a Biblical commentator, with over forty printings of works in Edinburgh, Geneva, Heidelberg, and Herborn between 1590 and 1634. Rollock may also have been the first Scottish (and British) exponent of covenant theology in his ''Questiones et responsiones aliquot de Foedere Dei'' (1596) and ''Tractatus de vocatione efficaci'' (1597).
-== Robert Rollock in Edinburgh University Library ==
+== Rollock Papers in Edinburgh University Library ==
 Edinburgh University Library holds a manuscript (in an unknown hand) of Rollock's ''Commentarius in primam beati Apostoli Petri Epistolam'' (Dc.4.68). The ''Commentarius'' is followed by a transcription of Latin epitaphs and elegies on Rollock by friends and colleagues, including two future Principal of Edinburgh University, [[Henry Charteris]] and [[John Adamson (1576–1651?)]]. In the University's [[Laing Collection]], there is also a signature to discharge by Rollock, 30 January 1578 (La.II.146) and his demision of the parsonage of Forteviot (La.II.227).