MINNESIUS, ALEXANDER [SSNE 7873]

Surname

MINNESIUS, MENZIES

First name

ALEXANDER

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

STUDENT

Education

SEMINARY

Religion

CATHOLIC, JESUIT

Text source

Alexander Minnesius, aged 15, matriculated at the Seminary of Braunsberg in the diocese of Ermland (Warmia) in August 1641. He arrived with Guilhelmus Minnesius [SSNE 7870] who may be some relation. He sat on the New Ecclesiastical Council in Braunsberg by 1651. He died of plague.

 

Sources: Alphons Bellesheim, History of the Catholic Church of Scotland from the Introduction of Christianity to the Present Day, translated with notes and additions by D. Oswald Hunter Blair, Vol. 3 [Appendix VI: Scottish Students in the Seminary of Braunsberg (diocese of Ermland, 1579-1642)] (Edinburgh, 1889), p. 457.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

PRUSSIA, POLAND-LITHUANIA, BRAUNSBERG (BRANIEWO)

Arrived 1641-07-31

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC, ECCLESIASTICAL