Editing Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (section)

=== Early life ===
[[File:Ulica-Ogama-95.JPG|left|thumb|upright|Location of Fahrenheit's birth in [[Gdańsk]]]]
Fahrenheit was born in Gdańsk (Danzig), then in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. The Fahrenheits were a German [[Hanse]] merchant family who had lived in several [[Hanseatic League|Hanseatic]] cities. Fahrenheit's great-grandfather had lived in [[Rostock]], and research suggests that the Fahrenheit family originated in [[Hildesheim]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Kant, Horst |title=G. D. Fahrenheit / R. -A. F. de Réaumur / A. Celsius |year=1984 |publisher=B. G. Teubner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYKtGQAACAAJ |access-date=14 June 2008}}</ref> Daniel's grandfather moved from [[Kneiphof]] in [[Königsberg]] (then in the [[Duchy of Prussia]]) to Gdańsk and settled there as a merchant in 1650. His son, Daniel Fahrenheit (the father of Daniel Gabriel), married Concordia Schumann, the daughter of a well-known Gdańsk business family. Daniel was the eldest of the five Fahrenheit children (two sons, three daughters) who survived childhood. His sister, Virginia Elisabeth Fahrenheit, married Benjamin Krüger and was the mother of Benjamin Ephraim Krüger, a clergyman and playwright.<ref>See the [http://www.g-gruppen.net/danzigforedt.htm#a2 Fahrenheit and Krueger genealogies].</ref>

As a young adult, Fahrenheit "showed a particular desire for studying," and was scheduled to enroll in the [[Academic Gymnasium Danzig|Danzig Gymnasium]].<ref name="momber" />{{rp|111}} But on 14 August 1701, his parents died after eating poisonous mushrooms.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meyer |first1=F.A. |title=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit aus Danzig |journal=Westpreussen Jahrbuch |date=1952 |issue=1951–1952 |pages=138–141}}</ref> Fahrenheit, along with two brothers and sisters, was placed under guardianship. In 1702, Fahrenheit's guardians enrolled him in a bookkeeping course and sent him to a four-year merchant trade apprenticeship in [[Amsterdam]].<ref name="star" />{{rp|1}}

Upon completing his apprenticeship, Fahrenheit ran off<ref name="momber" />{{rp|111}} and began a period of travel through the [[Holy Roman Empire]], Sweden, and Denmark in 1707. At the request of his guardians, a warrant was issued for his arrest with the intention of placing him into the service of the Dutch East India company.<ref name="star" />{{rp|3–4}}