About Johann Gottfried Roesner
Lived 1658 – 1724 (aged 66). Johann Gottfried Roesner was a Polish politician and mayor.
Anonymous painting of Roesner, c. 1730, city museum of Toruń Johann Gottfried Roesner (also spelled Rösner; 21 November 1658 – 7 December 1724) was an official from Royal Prussia (a fief of the Crown of Poland) executed following the Tumult of Thorn.
Roesner was born in Züllichau (Sulechów) in Brandenburg's Neumark. The Burgrave of Thorn (Toruń) by 1703, he was the town's burgomaster and the curator of the municipal Thorn Gymnasium by 1706. As were most other leading citizens, he was of the Lutheran faith.
Following the Tumult of Thorn between Catholics and Lutherans in the summer of 1724, Roesner was sentenced to death for "neglecting his duty and countenancing tumult" by the Polish supreme court in Warsaw. He died in Thorn.
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Prussian burgomaster (1658-1724)
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Johann Gottfried Roesner was born on 21 November 1658 in Sulechów.
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Johann Gottfried Roesner died on 7 December 1724 in Toruń.
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Johann Gottfried Roesner was a politician and mayor.
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Johann Gottfried Roesner was Polish.
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