Caspar Schütz (c. 1540 – 16 September 1594) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. Schütz was born in

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. As professor of poetry at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

from 1562 to 1565, he developed interest in the history of

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. He then became the historian of the city of Danzig (Gdansk) and collected old writings and records. His main work, published in 1592 in

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, was the

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or "wahrhafte Beschreibung der Lande Preussen in 10 Büchern vom Anfange bis auf das Jahr 1525".Max Pollux Toeppen, Petrus, Kaspar Schütz, Max Töppen: ''Geschichte der preussischen Historiographie''

He died in Danzig. Later, others resumed the work he began, covering also later periods, like in the 1720s,

Gottfried Lengnich Gottfried Lengnich ( pl, Gotfryd Lengnich) (4 December 1689 – 28 April 1774) was an 18th-century historian, lawyer and politician. He became known for writing the 9-volume ''History of Royal Prussia'' and for teaching Stanisław August Poniatow ...

References

*James B Collins, Karen L Taylor: ''Early Modern Europe Issues and Interpretations'', 2006

*''Caspari Schützii Rerum Prussicarum historia ex codice manu auctoris scripto edita'

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*Heinz Lingenberg

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1540 births 1594 deaths 16th-century German historians People from the Kingdom of Prussia Writers from Gdańsk German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub