Duncan Liddel

Having received an education in languages and philosophy at the local school and the University of Aberdeen, he went abroad at age 18.

[2] Three years later Craig returned to Scotland to become physician to King James VI, and Liddel, on his advice, moved to Breslau in Silesia, where he studied mathematics under Paul Wittich, and encountered Andreas Dudith.

[2][3][4] Shortly after his return to Frankfurt in 1590, Liddel joined the new University of Helmstedt established by Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

of the university, and began publicly to teach physic and to act as præses at the recitation of medical dissertations.

A substantial part of the Pitmedden estate was also gifted to the university, with the residue passing to Duncan's brother Peter Liddell in May 1614.

He found arguments against the Lutheran theologian Daniel Hofmann [de], who had deployed the doctrine of double truth at Helmstedt in a divisive fashion.