Jan Długosz

Jan Długosz (1415–1480) was a Polish priest, diplomat and chronicler, regarded as Poland's first historian. He studied at Kraków Academy from 1428 and was ordained in 1436, becoming a canon of Kraków and chancellor to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki.

Casimir IV used him in negotiations with the Teutonic Knights during the Thirteen Years' War of 1454–1466 and, from 1467, as tutor to his sons. His Annals of the Famous Kingdom of Poland surveyed Polish history to 1480, and he was nominated Archbishop of Lwów shortly before dying in Kraków in 1480.