The Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587/8-1627): A Dundee Physician in the Republic of Letters

Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters.


The Dundonian physician Peter Goldman, one of an immigrant family of merchants, was the first Scot to take a medical degree from Leiden; he then undertook research in Oxford, London, and Paris, before resettling in Dundee. An important figure in contemporary Scottish literary culture, he maintained a wide correspondence with significant intellectual figures and influenced tw...