Thomas Martin Lindsay
Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow
Thomas Martin Lindsay, FRSE (18 October 1843 – 6 December 1914) was a Scottish historian and the professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow. He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including Luther and the German Reformation (1900), and A History of the Reformation (1906–1907).
Early life and education
Lindsay was born on 18 October 1843 in Lesmahagow in Lanarkshire, the eldest son of Rev. Alexander Lindsay, and his wife, Susan Irvine Martin. He was initially educated in Lesmahagow. He then studied divinity at the Glasgow University. Finally he studied at the Edinburgh University, where he won the Ferguson Scholarship and the Shaw Fellowship and then 'worked there for a few years as an assistant to the professor of philosophy'. Soon afterwards, Lindsay took a course in ministry for the Free Church of Scotland. Having done so, in 1869 he 'acted as assistant to the minister of St. George’s Free church, Edinburgh.'
In 1871, Lindsay had published his translation of Friedrich Ueberweg's 'Logic', see Ueberweg 1871, which Scottish philosopher W.B. Gallie (1960) described as 'a monument to his industry in that capacity'.
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