List of people from Gdańsk
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This is a list of people from Gdańsk, Poland.
Before 16th century
Conrad Letzkau (ca. 1350 – 1411), mayor, executed by the Teutonic Knights
Tiedemann Giese (1480–1550), bishop
Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), poet, church canon and bishop
Bernhard von Reesen (1491–1521), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer
16th century
Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councillor and diplomat
Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), Prussian historian
Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter
Bartholomäus Keckermann (c.1571-1608), writer and Calvinist theologist
Regina Basilier (1572–1631), German-Swedish merchant banker
Philipp Clüver (1580–1622) an Early Modern geographer and historian.
17th century
Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653), a singer and musician; daughter of Danzig mayor
Reinhold Curicke (1610–1667), jurist, historian
Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer.
Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter
Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620–1669), Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
Andreas Schlüter (1659–c.1714), architect and sculptor
Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741) a theologian.
Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) physician, naturalist, geographer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) a physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker.
Gottfried Lengnich (1689–1774), jurist, historian
18th century
Johann Valentin Haidt (1700–1780), painter and preacher
Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
Louise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713–1762), writer
Nikita Panin (1718–1783) a Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great.
Sir Trevor Corry (1724–1780), diplomat; Baron of Poland; British Consul to Danzig 1745–1780
Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), artist and painter.
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), Prince, writer, literary and theatre critic.
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