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'''Alexander Morus (or Moir or More)''' (25 Sept. 1616, [[Castres]] - 28 Sept. 1670, [[Paris]]<ref>''More, Alexander'', in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sidney Lee editor, Adamant Media Corporation, 2001, ISBN 1402170653</ref>) was a Franco-Scotrish [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] preacher.▼
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[[File:Alexander More - Morus (1616–1670).jpg|thumb|180px|Alexander Morus<ref>Gloria Rose: ''A Portrait Called Carissimi''. Music & Letters, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 400-403</ref>]]
▲'''Alexander Morus (or Moir or More)''' (25 Sept.September 1616, [[Castres]] -– 28 Sept.September 1670, [[Paris]]<ref>''{{cite DNB|wstitle=More, Alexander'', in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sidney Lee editor, Adamant Media Corporation, 2001, ISBN 1402170653}}</ref>) was a Franco-ScotrishScottish [[CalvinismProtestantism|CalvinistProtestant]] preacher.
 
==Biography==
More's father, born in [[Scotland]], was a rector at a [[Huguenot]] college in the small villagetown of [[Castres]] in [[Languedoc]].<ref>Wiep van Bunge, ''The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750'', BRILL 2003, {{ISBN 9004135871|90-04-13587-1}}, page, 23-29</ref> In 1636 he left to study theology in [[Geneva]], where he became professor in Greek in 1639. By 1648, he was [[professor]] of [[theology]], [[pastor]] and [[Dean (religion)|dean]] of the Academy in Geneva.
 
He was an [[Amyraldist]], and ran into trouble in Geneva where his orthodoxy was suspect. He was appointed successor to [[Friedrich Spanheim]], but then was forced to leave Geneva.<ref>[[Hubert Cunliffe-Jones]], ''History of Christian Doctrine'' (2006), p. 427.</ref>
 
He was working in the [[Netherlands]] in the 1650s. In 1654, [[John Milton]] launched a vitriolic attack upon him, in his ''[[Defensio Secunda]]'', in the mistaken belief that he was the author of aan anonymous [[Cavalier|Royalist]] work containing a "rabid" attack on Milton, called ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum'' (Cry of the King's blood to Heaven). againstMorus replied with ''Fides Publica'' in 1654, published like the English''Regii parricidessanguinis'' by [[Adriaan Vlacq]] (also attacked by Milton).<ref>[[Barbara Kiefer Lewalski]], ''The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography'' (2002), p. 321.</ref> Milton then launched a second attack after Morus's reply. The true authorship of the ''Regii sanguinis'', written by [[Pierre Du Moulin]], sent to [[Salmasius]] and only seen into print by Morus, came out in 1670.<ref>William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell (editors), ''Milton'' (1996), p. 612.</ref>
 
He was professor of ecclesiastical history at [[Amsterdam]] from 1652 to 1659, and pastor at [[Charenton-le-Pont|Charenton]] for the last year of his life.<ref>''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'', article ''Alexander More''.</ref> During his time at Amsterdam he completed the second edition of [[Joseph Justus Scaliger|Joseph Justus Scaliger's]] ''Thesaurus temporum'' and had it published there in 1658.<ref>Dirk van Miert, ''The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670'', Oxford University Press (2018), p. 234</ref>
Morus deserves much credit for protecting the identity of the real author, [[Pierre Du Moulin]], who actually lived in [[Oxford]], when he could have revealed it to divert the blame.
 
Milton then launched a second attack after Morus's reply. As a result of this dispute, Morus had to flee to Charenton, in France.
 
==References==
 
*[[David Masson]], ''The Life of John Milton'', Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660
*Alexandri Mori ecclesiastae & sacrarum litterarum professoris fides publica. Contra calumnias Ioannis Miltoni, Hagae-Comitum (S'Gravenhage): Vlacq, 1654.
*A. Bruce (1813), ''A critical account of the life, character and discourses of Mr. Alexander Morus''
 
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