Reinhold Curicke (12 January 1610 – 2 April 1667) was a jurist and historian from Danzig (Gdańsk) who specialized in the

history of the city Towns and city, cities have a long history, although opinions vary on which Ancient history, ancient settlements are truly cities. Historically, the benefits of dense, permanent settlement were numerous, but required prohibitive amounts of food an ...

and its connections with

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merchant organization. In 1645, Curicke published a

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four-volume work: ''Der Stadt Danzig historische Beschreibung ...''. This historical description of Danzig was the first

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about the city. It covers the origins of the city, its government, wars and religious history. His son, Georg Reinhold Curicke, commissioned a posthumous publication with copper etchings to illustrate the history were printed in 1687 in Danzig and Amsterdam. Katalog der Handschriften der Danziger Stadtbibliothek, 1903
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* ''Secretarius Reinhold Curicke: Der Stadt Dantzig historische Beschreibung, worinnen von dero Uhrsprung Situation Regiments-Art geführten Kriegen Religions- und Kirchen-Wesen außführlich gehandelt wird. Verfasset u. zusammengetragen durch Curicke i. J. 1645.'' (original edition) * ''... Anitzo aber mit sonderbahren Fleiss, nebst vielen dazu gehörigen Kupferstücken in öffentlichen Druck aufgegeben von G. Reinhold Curicken, 1686.'' (posthumous edition with copper etchings) * ''... Und mit vielen newen Additionibus vermehrt und continuiert biß auff die gegenwertige Zeit. Johan und Gillis Janssons von Waesberge, 1688, Amsterdam/Dantzig

(updated and expanded edition, reprinted by Paul Rosenberg, Danziger Verlagsgesellschaft,

Klausdorf Klausdorf is a former municipality in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km northwest of Plön, and 5 km east of Kiel. On 1 March 2008, it was merged with Raisdorf to form the town ...

bei Kiel, 1987)

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Apotheosis of Jan III Sobieski as a Roman Emperor
(as part of the Reinhold Curick’s ''Der Stadt Dantzig historische Beschreibung'') at the Wilanów Palace Museum
Entry of Reinhold Curicke
in

Rostock Matrikelportal The Rostock Matrikelportal (matriculation portal) disseminates about 186,000 individual-level datasets drawn from the student registers of the University of Rostock from its establishment in 1419 to today. Each entry is faithfully transcribed and l ...

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