This is a list of people from Gdańsk (Danzig). Early times 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 (born 1490), businessman painted by Albrecht Dürer 16th C 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 C 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 C 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. Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1736–1794), primate of Poland Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741–1812), historian and publicist. Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. Jacob Kabrun Jr. (1759-1814), merchant, book and art collector, and philanthropist Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) a philosopher. Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), author; mother of Arthur Schopenhauer Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), poet and educator. Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807), composer Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher. 19th C Heinrich von Zastrow (1801–1875), general Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman (1805-1841), portrait painter Rachel Meyer (1806-1874), writer Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882) an historian and writer on Roman antiquities. Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) a landscape painter. Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), historian, mathematician, philologist Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf (1832–1891), general, writer. Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896) an historian. Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), Catholic priest and philosopher Fritz von Below (1853–1918), general Otto von Below (1857–1944), general August von Brandis (1859–1947), artist Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) psychologist. Max Halbe (1865–1944), writer Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), feminist, writer and journalist Max Adalbert (1874–1933), actor Alfred Stock