William Dickie Niven

William Dickie Niven (26 April 1879 – 26 February 1965), of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire,[1] was a Scottish academic.

Family

Niven was the son of Charles Niven and Jane M. Mackay. In 1908, he married Isabella Cumming and they had two daughters.[2]

Education

He was educated at Fyvie Public School and Gordon's College, Aberdeen. Niven was educated at the University of Aberdeen, then at Berlin and Halle. He graduated with an MA from Aberdeen in 1900.

Career

He was a church minister from 1907 to 1927. Niven was Professor of New Testament Language and Literature from 1935 to 1946. He was professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1946 until 1949, both at Trinity College, Glasgow.[3] He was an army chaplain during World War I.[4] He was awarded the Lumsden and Sachs Fellowship and the Croom Robertson Fellowship. He retired in 1949.[5]

Publications

References

  1. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/2409/
  2. ‘NIVEN, William Dickie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 March 2014.
  3. http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2243&type=P
  4. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/2409/
  5. ‘NIVEN, William Dickie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 March 2014

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