ROBERT

See also:

• BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (1851-1882)
• ROBERT BALFOUR (known also as BALFOREUS) (1550?-1625?)
• BALFOUR, SIR JAMES (of Pittendreich) (d. 1583 Or 1584)
• BALFOUR, SIR JAMES, BART

BALFOUR (known also as BALFOREUS) (1550?-1625?)  , Scottish philosopher, was educated at St Andrews and the university of Paris . He was for many years principal of the Guienne College at Bordeaux . His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis (Bordeaux, 1618); the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highly-eulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer . Balfour was one of the scholars who contributed to spread over Europe the fame of the praefervidum ingenium Scotorum . His contemporary, Dempster, called him the " phoenix of his age, a philosopher profoundly skilled in the Greek and Latin languages, and a mathematician worthy of being compared with the ancients." His Cleomedis meteora, with notes and Latin translation, was reprinted at Leiden as late as 182o . See Dempster, Historia Ecclesiastica Gent . Scotorum; Irving's Lives of the Scottish Writers; Anderson's Scottish Nation, i . 217 .