Jan Uphagen

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Jan (Johann) Uphagen (born 9 February 1731 in Gdansk, died 17 November 1802 in Gdańsk) is a Gdańsk bibliophile, who collected over 14,000 books, mostly in the humanities, reflecting the tendencies of the Enlightenment. In Gdansk he served as a city councilman and a layman. His tenement house (Uphagen House) at ul. Dluga 12, after his death - by the testament - a museum that remained unchanged until 1945.

Jan Uphagen received a thorough education, which included legal, philosophical and historical studies in Göttingen (1751-1754). There was also a great influence on Germany, the Netherlands and France. Upon his return to Gdansk, Uphagen held a number of offices, was among others a lay judge, sat on the board of Gdansk hospitals. The crowning of his public activities was the occupation of the dignity of the rider. However, in 1793, he submitted this office as a protest against the joining of Gdansk to Prussia as a result of the second partition of Poland.

Uphagen had many interests: he was a collector of art, an amateur historian and a bibliophile. He also devoted much attention to his tenement, whose rococo rebuilding immediately after the acquisition (1775) commissioned the builder John Beniamin Dreyer. The interior was influenced by Uphagen's knowledge of French palace architecture. The work that resulted in the facade being transformed into several stages lasted until 1787.

Jan Uphagen and his wife Abigail lived in their tenement house from October 16, 1779, until their death in 1802. Since he did not leave the descendants, he handed over the estate to the family foundation he had previously created, with the proviso that the house would not be sold or rebuilt.

The house was the headquarters of the Foundation's manager. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, the Uphagens lived primarily in land estates, and the tenement house at ul. Long has fallen into negligence. This situation lasted until the beginning of the 20th century when the city authorities took an interest in it and set up a museum in 1911. The house burned down in March 1945. After the war rebuilt, and the interior decoration (evacuated in 1944) was re-installed in 1993-1998. From June 1998 the museum was again. Bibliography

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