Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Was Born In A Prosperous Household

One of some interesting facts about Daniel is that he was born into a wealthy family. An intriguing aspect about Daniel Fahrenheit is that he came from a wealthy merchant family, in contrast to many scientists and innovators who went on to have tremendous success in life. Fahrenheit was a rich merchant family descendant who, in the middle of the seventeenth century, had relocated from Königsberg to Danzig. Daniel, his father, wed Concordia Schumann, a Danzig wholesaler's daughter.

Daniel was the oldest of the five children born from this relationship, which included three girls and two boys. In May 1686, he was born. The family spent some time in Danzig (now Gdansk) after Daniel Fahrenheit's marriage to Concordia Schumann, a well-known businessman's daughter. Fahrenheit's guardian sent him to Amsterdam in 1701 to study commerce after his parents unexpectedly passed away. Evidently, it was there that Fahrenheit first learned about and developed a fascination for the relatively niche and fast-expanding industry of manufacturing scientific equipment.