Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit research suggests that the Fahrenheit family originated in Hildesheim. Daniel's grandfather moved from Kneiphof in Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) to Danzig and settled there as a merchant in 1650. His son, Daniel Fahrenheit (the father of the subject of this article), married Concordia Schumann, daughter of a well-known Danzig business family. Daniel was the eldest of the five Fahrenheit children (two sons, three daughters) who survived childhood. His sister, Virginia Elizabeth Fahrenheit, married Benjamin Ephraim Krueger of an aristocratic family from Danzig. Daniel Gabriel began training as a merchant in Amsterdam after his parents died on 14 August 1701 from eating
Gabriel Daniel accuracy, Daniel had the advantage of consulting valuable original sources. His "Histoire de la milice française", etc. (1721) is superior to his "Histoire de France". Daniel also wrote a reply to Pascal's "Provincial Letters", entitled "Entretiens de Cleanthe et d'Eudoxe sur les lettres provinciales" (1694); two treatises on Descartes' theory as to the intelligence of the lower animals, and other works. Gabriel Daniel Gabriel Daniel (8 February 1649 – 23 June 1728) was a French Jesuit historian. Born in Rouen, he was educated by the Jesuits, entered the order at the age of eighteen, and became superior at Paris. He