Editing Robert Abercromby (Jesuit) (section)

==Early life==
He was born and educated in [[Scotland]], and studied in the [[Collegium Romanum]] in [[Rome]], where on 19 August 1563 he became a Jesuit. From 1564 he lived in Braunsberg (then in [[Royal Prussia]]; present-day [[Braniewo]]) where he was professor of grammar in the biggest Polish Jesuit ''[[collegium]]'' (where teaching was in [[Latin language|Latin]]) and a [[novice master]].

In 1565 he was ordained a [[Catholic priest|priest]]. In Braniewo he was in constant contact with [[Stanislaus Hosius]]. Learning [[Polish language|Polish]] was difficult for him, and he had some problems with the finances of the school. Due to these problems he was permitted to leave Poland in 1580, when he met the Scottish king for the first time. In September 1580 he went back to Poland - from 1580 to 1587 he performed similar tasks in [[Kraków]], [[Poznań]] and [[Wilno]].

In 1587 he left Poland and returned to Scotland. During the journey to Scotland in 1580 and during his second stay there he was organizing transports of Scottish [[Catholicism|Catholic]] novices to be trained in Polish schools and [[Catholic seminary|seminaries]].<ref>Biegańska, Anna. ''The learned Scots in Poland from the mid-sixteenth to the close of the eighteenth century'', "Canadian Slavonic Papers", March 2001, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200103/ai_n8948825/pg_3 online version]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>Grzebień, Father Ludwik (SJ), ''Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy, 1564-1995'', Kraków 1996, [http://jezuici.krakow.pl/cgi-bin/rjbo?b=enc&q=ABERCROMBIE&f=1 online version with additional bibliography]</ref>