Reinhold Curicke (12 January 1610 – 2 April 1667) was a jurist and historian from Danzig (Gdańsk) who specialized in the history of the city, including its past as principal city of province of

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in the

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. 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,

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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

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