List of people from Danzig

List of people from Danzig

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
* Max Adalbert (1874-1933), actor
* 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 [http://www.n-ost.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=540&Itemid=106] ), mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
* Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
* Wawrzyniec Samp, b. 1939, sculptor and graphic artist
* Matthias Habich, b. 1940, actor

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


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