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GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
She was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw, Vistula Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 - 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
There was no Poland when she was living in France. Poland was under occupation she supported Polish independence.
She named the first new chemical element that she discovered (1898) "polonium" for her native country, and in 1932 she founded a Radium Institute (now the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology) in her home town Warsaw, headed by her physician-sister Bronisława.
Kopernik was writing that he is from Toruń not the "German"
Language:
In Poland we were using Latin and German language in writing. In Kopernik's times Polish language has been created.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikołaj_Rej
"A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają,
iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają."
("Let it by all and sundry foreign nations be known
that Poles speak not Anserine but a tongue of their own.")
Mikołaj Rej (February 4, 1505 - between September 8 and October 5, 1569 (...) He is considered, along with Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski, to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.
Kopernik couldn't write in Polish - it was impossible. He was using languages all Poles were using in writing.
Only Polish versions exist in reality.
mapa/kompletny/kopernik.html
What is important in places connected with his family history (his father was form Kraków).
He was using Latin version (in documents). When we look on fact that in modern times people use Polish version of this name ... and they live mostly in Poland... in places strongly connected with his history ...
What is more Skłodowska - Cure was supporting Polands independence like Mikołaj Kopernik who was loyal soldier in Polish army and he has been fighting against country considered to be "German".
In my opinion using of German version of his name is very wrong because you can't find Germans or Poles with such name. You can find people with name Kopernik or his Latin name in most documents.