William Spence Urquhart

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William Spence Urquhart (born May 8, 1877 in Annandale , Woolston , Southampton , † July 16, 1964 in Torphins, Aberdeenshire ) was a British Christian scholar. Among other things, he influenced one of his college students, who later became the founder of the religion, AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada .

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William Spence Urquhart was born the youngest of three children on May 8, 1877 in Annandale, Woolston (an area of ​​Southampton), United Kingdom.

His father, Rev. Robert Urquhart, was the sixth generation cleric of the Presbyterian United Free Church of Scotland in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire. His mother's name was Mary Jane Spence.

After attending school (1887-1893), William Spence Urquhart earned a Master of Arts degree in philosophy.

From 1898 to 1902 he completed a four-year study of theology at the College in Edinburgh, which took him to Marburg (1899) and Göttingen (1901), among others.

In 1902 Urquhart became a priest in the Presbyterian United Free Church of Scotland. On December 23, 1902, a few days after his ordination, William Spence Urquhart set out for India by sea.

There he married Margaret Macaskill, daughter of a priest of the United Free Church of Scotland in Calcutta on December 20, 1905 . He taught English, social studies, health studies, and philosophy at the Church's college there. For his work Pantheism and the Values ​​of Life (London 1919) the University of Aberdeen awarded him an honorary doctorate.

In 1913 he took over the management of the newspaper Calcutta Review for 8 years .

From 1909 onwards, Subhas Chandra Bose , who later became the Indian freedom fighter, attended Scottish Church College . He was a fellow student of later AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada . It is said that Urquhart had a positive opinion of Bose.

On February 2, 1926, Urquhart became director of Scottish Church College. He founded the Philosophical Society at Scottish Churches College and established connections with the Indian YMCA .

Urquhart was from 1916 a member of the University of Calcutta and a member of the Congress of the Universities of the Empire from 1921. From 1928 to 1930 he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and Dean of the Faculty of Arts . He also preached regularly at church services in Calcutta.

Urquhart retired in 1937. He left Calcutta with his wife to teach systematic theology , logic and moral philosophy . Urquhart taught for one year at the University of Aberdeen, two years at Knox College in Toronto, and then again in Aberdeen from 1940 to 1946.

Reverend William Spence Urquhart died on July 16, 1964.

Works

  • Pantheism and the Values ​​of Life (London 1919)
  • The Upanishads and Life (1913)
  • The Historical and the Eternal Christ (Edinburgh 1915)
  • Theosophy and Christian Thought (Edinburgh 1922)
  • The Vedanta and Modern Thought (Edinburgh 1928)
  • The Idea of ​​Progress in Eastern and Western Thought (Calcutta 1931)
  • Humanism and Christianity (Edinburgh 1945)

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  1. ^ Schmidt, Peter: Krishna meets Jesus. AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's Interpretations and Conclusions about Christianity, Books on Demand GmbH, ISBN 3-8311-3570-3 , p. 103
personal data
SURNAME Urquhart, William Spence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Christian scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Annandale , Woolston , Southampton
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1964
Place of death Torphins, Aberdeenshire