ADAMSON, GEORGE [SSNE 4327]

Surname
ADAMSON, ADAMSONUS
First name
GEORGE, GEORGIUS
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
STUDENT
Education
UNIVERSITY

Text source

George Adams was a British student at Rostock university in 1606. He is listed as 'Britannus'. Given the English distaste for the term "British" at this particular time (signifying, as it did, Scotland's gain of the English crown in 1603), whereas many Scots were either happy or non-plussed at the use of "British", it is likely that Adams was in fact a Scot

Die Matrikel der Universitat Rostock, (Rostock, 1889).

Service record

SCOTLAND, ROSTOCK
Arrived 1606-11-01
Departed 1606-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC