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Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki (Georg Franz Kolschitzky)

Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki (1640-1694) was a Polish nobleman and diplomat. According to legend, he is often cited as starting the first café in the Vienna in 1683, using coffee beans left behind by the retreating Ottoman Turks.

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