Muzeum Przyrodnicze w Jeleniej Górze

1. RENOWNED GUESTS AND BATHERS WHO VISITED CIEPLICE:

RENOWNED GUESTS AND BATHERS WHO VISITED CIEPLICE:

Michał Kazimierz Radziwił (1635-1680)

Polish-Lithuanian Prince; Lithuanian Deputy Chancellor; Field Hetman of Lithuania; Voivode of Vilnius; Starost of Upytė, Przemyśl, Kamieniec, Człuchów, Chojnice, Lida etc.; Husband to Katarzyna Sobieska (sister of Jan III Sobieski, the king of Poland); Friend of Teodor Billewicz, the dapifer of Žemaitija; Wrote a diary on his travels across Europe from 1677 to 1678 in which he wrote the first Polish description of Cieplice.

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d’Arquien (1641-1716)

Queen of Poland between 1676 and 1696; Jan Zamoyski’s wife, later married to Jan III Sobieski; She was supposed to be the Godmother to one of Christoph Leopold Schaffgotsch’s daughters but ultimately she became one of the witnesses to the ceremony.

Michał Stefan Radziejowski                                 

Bishop of Warmia; Crown’s Vice-Chancellor; Cardinal; Archbishop of Gniezno; Primate of Poland since 1687.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)

World renowned author; One of the most influential German poets; Playwright; Writer; Politician; Freemason; Count Johann Nepomuck Gotthard Graf Schaffgotsch gave him a geologically rich rock fragment from Karkonosze.

Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj (1750-1812)

Polish politician; Enlightenment period publicist; Writer; Satirist; Poet; Geographer; Rector of the Main Royal School (now the Jagiellonian University) between 1783 and 1786; Crown’s Vice Chancellor; Treasurer of the Highest National Council; Co-creator of the Governance Act (Constitution of 3 May 1791).

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

Lawyer; Diplomat; US Ambassador; Senator; Eighth United States Secretary of State; Sixth President of the United States of America (1825-1829).

Friederich Wilhelm III (1770-1840)

King of Prussia; Came to Warmbrunn (now Cieplice) with his wife Luise; In 1810 he issued the decree of the dismantlement of Silesian monasteries (at the time the monastery in Krzeszów and its prapositura in Cieplice).