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GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]
Shortly before
2 days, 2 years, before, after, who cares? What counts is that was within Polish boundaries at the time.
Copernicus and his uncle Watzenrode remained Catholic.
If he wanted to remain Catholic, and the Teutonic knights were Catholic then why...
organized the defence of Olsztyn
Just read the link again...
Yawn.. Kopperlingk. So its German. It proves nothing but the fact that his dad dealt with more rich Germans in his business than rich Poles.
Since you bring out arguments from a page you didn't cite, maybe I can be so kind as to show our good people the counter arguments made within the same source.
since even the name suggests that also his father was german!
that Copernicus' great-grandfather had obtained citizenship in the city of Kraków around 1400. Kraków, like many medieval cities, had been created under Magdeburg law and later became a Hanseatic League city, but was Polish.
In terms of the political geography of his time, the position that Copernicus was born Polish is undoubtedly correct.
There are no extant letters written by Copernicus in Polish - those which have survived are all in Latin or German. However, Latin was at the time the international language of scholars and those letters in German might have been addressed to German-speakers and therefore for this specific purpose written in that language.
I have a great grandmother that lived in Silesia district her entire life, didn't speak a word of Polish, yet her parents could trace her lineage to Northern Poland. And she considered herself Polish!
Finally,
One can say summarizing, that Copernicus' working language was Latin, his mother tongue was German, his sovereign was Polish and his father tongue was probably Polish. He is undisputedly a Central-European.
This has gotten us nowhere. What remains is the fact that the Germans are attempting to Germanize a man that was obviously a Polish citizen. Why must they change history books?
