Every German has Polish roots.
I tell ya...WWII is actually the fault of the Poles! *nods*
:):):)
Most Germans and Germanic countries consider blood as most important and language (Nationalism) as placing national identity
Well...isn't it???
You can change your pass or your name...but not your ethnic, your blood, your heritage!
The guy was born in Kraków to a Polish family, he fought Teutons, thats a pretty big indication of his nationality.
Not to a polish family ("Watzenrode" doesn't sound polish to me) and in an inner-prussian civil war about taxes mostly he chose the side which was accidentally the side of some Poles too...some indications!
knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Copernicus%27_nationality
If Kopernikus was "polish" than Nikola Tesla was "austrian"!
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. The official languages of the Holy Roman Empire were Latin and German. (The Spanish Habsburg emperor(s) had to sign an agreement, to only use Latin or German in official HRE business.)
The surviving letters in German were correspondence with Prussian duke Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, with whom Copernicus coordinated the Prussian coin reform and other internal Prussian government business.
...yeah...what an anti-german polish nationalist he was...
