John Jamieson

Rev. John Jamieson, D.D.
Born	3 March 1759(1759-03-03) Glasgow, Scotland
Died	12 July 1838 (79) George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Burial	St. Cuthbert's Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)	Reverend in the Secession Church, first at Forfar, later at Edinburgh
Nationality	Scottish
Religion	Secession Church (Presbyterian), Antiburghers
Alma mater	Glasgow University (1768-71); Edinburgh University (1775-6); College of New Jersey (D.D., 1795)
Affiliations	Society of Scottish Antiquaries; F.R.S. of Edinburgh; American Antiquarian Society

John Jamieson (March 3, 1759 - July 12, 1838) was a Scottish Secessionist minister and student of language, devoted particularly to the Scottish language, which he argued to be of Pictish origin (which, in turn, he held to be of Gothic origin), as well as author of a further theory that the Greek and Latin languages were of likewise Gothic origins.

Selected Bibliography

Religious

• Jamieson, John (1802), The Use of Sacred History: Especially as Illustrating and Confirming the Great Doctrines of Revelation ; to Which Are Prefixed Two Dissertations; the First, on the Authenticity of the History Contained in the Pentateuch, and in the Book of Joshua ; the Second, Proving That the Books Ascribed to Moses Were Actually Written by Him, and That He Wrote Them by Divine Inspiration, I, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Nevin & Co. for the Author, https://archive.org/details/useofsacredhisto01jami/ 
• Jamieson, John (1802), The Use of Sacred History: Especially as Illustrating and Confirming the Great Doctrines of Revelation, II, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Nevin & Co. for the Author, https://archive.org/details/useofsacredhisto02jami/ 

Languages

• Jamieson, John (1808), An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations by Examples From Ancient and Modern Writers, I, Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press, https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict01jami 
• Jamieson, John (1808), An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations by Examples From Ancient and Modern Writers, II, Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press, https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict02jami 
• Jamieson, John (1814), Hermes Scythicus: or, the Radical Affinities of the Greek and Latin Languages to the Gothic: Illustrated From the Moeso-Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Francic, Alemannic, Suio-Gothic, Islandic, etc., To Which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Historical Proofs of the Scythian Origin of the Greeks, Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000162728 

Histories

• Jamieson, John (1811), An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of Their Settlements in Scotland, England and Ireland, Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantine & Co., Hanover-Street, and Longman, etc., Pasternoster-Row, London, https://archive.org/details/historicalaccoun00jami 

Reading

• Significant Scots: John Jamieson, electricscotland.com, https://electricscotland.com/history/other/jamieson_john.htm 
• Dossena, Marina (Nov. 2008), When antiquarians looked at the thistle – Late Modern views of Scotland’s linguistic heritage, thebottleimp.org.uk, https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/11/when-antiquarians-looked-at-the-thistle-late-modern-views-of-scotlands-linguistic-heritage/?print=print