The New International Encyclopædia/Dickson, William Purdie

​DICKSON, William Purdie, D.D. (1823–). A Church of Scotland theologian. He was born at Pettinain Manse, Lanarkshire, October 22, 1823; graduated at Saint Andrews; was, from 1863 to 1895, a divinity professor in Glasgow University, and is now professor emeritus. Besides translating Mommsen’s History of Rome (4 vols., rev. ed. 1895) and Roman Provinces (1887), and Meyer’s Commentary on the New Testament (10 vols., 1873–80), he delivered the Baird lectures of 1883, Saint Paul’s Use of the Terms Flesh and Spirit (1883).

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