DONALDSON, WALTER [SSNE 1341]
- Surname
- DONALDSON, DONALTSONUS
- First name
- WALTER, GUALTERUS
- Title/rank
- WRITER, ENVOY
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- ABERDEEN
- Social status
- GENTRY
Text source
Walter Donaldson is listed as a philosophical writer who was attached to the embassy sent by King James VI of Scotland to Denmark in 1594. He studied at Heidelberg in 1599. In June 1620 a theologian called Walter Donaldson (1575-1630), 40-50 years of age and noted as a Scotsman by birth, living in Paris and who had adopted French ways was mentioned in Leiden university records. He may have been considered for a position at that universityT. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902), p.314; Dictionary of National Biography; P.C. Molhuysen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis der leidsche universiteit, ('S Gravenhage, 1916), II, p.177.
Service record
- SCOTLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY
- Arrived 1594-01-01
- Departed 1594-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY