Location: Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland
Cause of death: Cancer - Colon
Photo taken by: Jonathan Oldenbuck
Buy books by David Hume
Scottish historian, philosopher, economist and essayist, author of Treatise of Human Nature (1739) and a critical figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a strong influence on many other thinkers and public figures, Adam Smith among them.
Hume wrote a great deal on religion, the Church of Scotland seriously considered bringing charges of infidelity against him. After his death his grave had to be guarded for 8 days, due to strong public hostility towards him at the time of his death, largely due to his professed atheism.
In his will Hume requested that a "Monument be built over my body ... with an Inscription containing only my Name and the Year of my Birth and Death, leaving it to Posterity to add the Rest."
Comments