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GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]
Well he was from Thorn...do you see anybody denying that? What's your problem boy? To thick a head?
Millions of Germans lived for centuries in what became Poland after the wars...boundaries shifted, ethnics didn't.
Or the Polish ethnie should had stopped existing during the partitions! You know millions of Poles becoming Germans or Russians, right? Following your
logic nobody should have wanted independence or an own polish state as they became immediately all happy Germans and happy Russians...
And what about that???
The Copernicus manuscript book states : [...] Nicolaus Copernicus Canon [in] Warmia, in Prussia Germaniae mathematician...(Nicolai Copernick Canonici Varmiensis, in Borussia Germaniae mathematici)
He described himself as
PRUSSIAN GERMAN MATHEMATICIANExplain this if he was such a passionate Pole...:)
He lived under the polish crown, nobody forced him
to call himself german! :):):)
His uncle, the Bishop of Warmia although a Watzenrode had a fine German name like £ukasz.
NopeWatzenrode was born in Thorn (Toruń) as the son of the trader Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400-1462). He studied at the universities of Kraków, Cologne, and Bologna.
When both his sister Barbara Koppernigk and her husband Nicolas had died around 1483, Lucas took care of their four children, Katharina, Barbara, Andreas and Nicolaus, who would become known as the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Watzenrode_the_Younger
...nothing Polish about them! :)