Johann Georg Moeresius ( pl, Jan Jerzy Moeresius) (1598–1657) was a poet and
rector
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in
Danzig (Gdańsk),
Poland
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.
Moeresius, a friend of the poet
Johannes Plavius
Johannes Plavius (born c. 1600) was a German poet that most likely was born in Central German Thuringia, in Neuhausen (as he calls himself "M. Johannes Plavius Nehusâ Thüringus" in some works) or Plauen (Latinized to ''Plavia''), from which his ...
, dedicated a series of poems to the singer
Constantia Zierenberg
Constantia Zierenberg (1605–1653) was a singer and musician from Gdańsk, Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Daniel Stone,''A History of East Central Europe'', University of Washington Press, 2001, p. 30,Google Books/ref>
C ...
, the daughter of
Johann Zierenberg who was mayor of the town from 1630 to 1642.
Sources
Katarzyna Grochowska, ''From Milan to Gdańsk: The Story of A Dedication''Biographisches zu Plavius
Moeresius, Johann Georg
Moeresius, Johann Georg
Moeresius, Johann Georg
Polish poets
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