Softsong
20 Nov 2008
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]
And having been born in Poland for three hundred years, my ethnic Germans were loyal Polish citizens, too. But they were still ethnically German.
My Polish ancestors were citizens of Germany at the time they were born. And so they are listed as Germans when they came to America.
So, what country you are a citizen of proves little of what ethnic lines you have, but can reflect what country receives your loyalty.
From what I read, I honestly believe that Copernicus had a Polish father who married a German lady. So, he's really ethnically half and half, lived in Royal Prussia which was subject to Poland. I doubt he cared one way or another.
And the idea of sharing him really is best. :-)
And having been born in Poland for three hundred years, my ethnic Germans were loyal Polish citizens, too. But they were still ethnically German.
My Polish ancestors were citizens of Germany at the time they were born. And so they are listed as Germans when they came to America.
So, what country you are a citizen of proves little of what ethnic lines you have, but can reflect what country receives your loyalty.
From what I read, I honestly believe that Copernicus had a Polish father who married a German lady. So, he's really ethnically half and half, lived in Royal Prussia which was subject to Poland. I doubt he cared one way or another.
And the idea of sharing him really is best. :-)