List of people from Danzig
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List of people from Danzig (Gdańsk) from the period 1308 to 1945.
- For people born before 1308 and after 1945, see List of people from Gdańsk
- Tiedemann Giese, 1480 , bishop
- Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop
- Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, business man painted by Albrecht Dürer
- Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat
- Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig), Prussian Historian
- Anton van Obberghen, 1543, architect
- Anton Möller, 1563, painter
- Bartholomäus Keckermann c. 1571 - c. 1609, writer and Calvinist theologist
- Sigmund Kerschenstein, born 1603, Calvinist, married to musician Constantia Zierenberg
- Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628
- Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian
- Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer
- Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter
- Bogusław Radziwiłł, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia
- Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor
- Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
- Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer
- Michael Christoph Hanow (1695 Zamborst, Pomerania - 1773 Danzig), mathematician, since 1717 Rector of the Gymnasium Danzig, meterologist, historian, scientist
- Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig
- Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer
- Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland
- Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist
- Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi
- Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary
- Jacob Kabrun Jr. 1759-1814 books and art collector, philanthropist
- Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author and mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
- Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher
- Otto von Below, 1823
- Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf 1832, general, writer
- Fritz von Below, 1853-1918
- Max Halbe, 1865, writer (de:Max Halbe)
- Ernst Rudolf Adolf Kuster, 1903
- Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński, 1915-1989, composer
- Mathias Goeritz, 1915-1990 artist
- Brunon Zwarra, b. 1919, writer
- Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist
- Miltiades Caridis b. 1923
- Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
- Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer and philosopher
- Vera Klement, b. 1929, painter
- Herlind Kasner née Jent(z)sch, b. 1928 (possibly in Elbing[1]), mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
- Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
- Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor
[edit] See also
- For people born before 1308 and after 1945, see List of people from Gdańsk (Danzig)
- List of people living or working in Gdańsk
