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'''Nicolaus''' (or '''Nicholas''') '''Copernicus''' (]-]) was a ] ] of ] origins who developed a heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the ]. He was also a ] and a medic. |
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His major theory was published in the book ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") in the year of his death ], even though he had arrived at it several decades earlier. This book marks the beginning of the shift from a ] (and ]) universe. Copernicus held that the Earth is another planet revolving around the fixed sun once a year, and turning on its axis once a day. The theory, unfortunately, still had some serious defects, like circular as opposed to elliptical orbits and ]s, that made it no more precise in predicting ephemerides than the then current tables based on ]'s model. But it had a large influence on scientists such as ] and ], who adopted, championed and, in Kepler's case, improved the model. The book was put on the ] in ] by the ]. Galileo's observation of |
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the phases of ] produced the first observational evidence for Copernicus' theory. |
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Legend says that a printed copy of ''De revolutionibus'' was put in Copernicus's hands shortly before his death so that he could say goodbye to his ''opus vitae''. He awoke from his ] induced ], looked at his book, and died peacefully. |
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<b>Polish or German?</b> |
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Copernicus is generally regarded as Polish, and in terms of the political geography of his time, this is undoubtedly correct. ], his place of birth, had passed from the suzerainty of the Order of ] to that of the King of ] shortly after his father's arrival there from ]. However, ethnically both his mother and father were most likely of German origin. The family name can be traced to the town of Koppernigk near ] in ], which was inhabited by Germans in the 14th century at the time of emigration from that region eastwards into Poland. No known letter written by him was in the ] -- they were all in ] or ]. However, that means little, as Latin was at the time the international language of scholars and those letters in German may have been addressed to Germans and therefore written in that language. |
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He was definitely Polish by allegiance (in terms of the politics of the time). In 1512, when he was Canon of the Chapter of Frombork, Copernicus swore allegiance to King ] of Poland. In 1520, after the outbreak of war between Poland and the Teutonic Knights, Copernicus was a member of the Polish embassy to the Grand Master requesting restoration of ] to Poland. He also organized the defence of ] against the Order. |
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Copernicus is generally regarded as Polish, and in terms of the political geography of his time, this is undoubtedly correct. ], his place of birth, had passed from the suzerainty of the Order of ] to that of the King of ] shortly after his father's arrival there from ]. However, ethnically both his mother and father were most likely of German origin. The family name can be traced to the town of Koppernigk near ] in ], which was inhabited by Germans in the 14th century at the time of emigration from that region eastwards into Poland. No known letter written by him was in the ] -- they were all in ] or ]. However, that means little, as Latin was at the time the international language of scholars and those letters in German may have been addressed to Germans and therefore written in that language. |
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He was definitely Polish by allegiance (in terms of the politics of the time). In 1512, when he was Canon of the Chapter of Frombork, Copernicus swore allegiance to King ] of Poland. In 1520, after the outbreak of war between Poland and the Teutonic Knights, Copernicus was a member of the Polish embassy to the Grand Master requesting restoration of Braniewo to Poland. He also organized the defence of Olsztyn against the Order. |
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He was definitely Polish by allegiance (in terms of the politics of the time). In 1512, when he was Canon of the Chapter of Frombork, Copernicus swore allegiance to King ] of Poland. In 1520, after the outbreak of war between Poland and the Teutonic Knights, Copernicus was a member of the Polish embassy to the Grand Master requesting restoration of Braniewo to Poland. He also organized the defence of Olsztyn against the Order. |
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:Why? He lived in Poland (In part of Poland called Prussia, just like others where called Great Poland, Mazovia, Little Poland- if you will see map from that period, you will see map of Masovia, and no Polonia around). He was loyal to Polish state. His language - heh! in XVIII century one of most popular Polish Patriotic songs was in German, and was written by Danziger!] |
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A, one more thing: Mikolaj or Nikolaj, both forms were allowed in Polish by that time. |
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I have walked many years on this planet and ] was always one of the guys to admire. It is nice to know that a guy from ] (he was born in Polish Torun, studied in Polish Cracow, and died in Polish Frombork) wrote a book that started serious science not long after ] made publishing possible. The news that he might be a ] hit me as much as if a German was to learn today that ] was Polish! I have never seen such a claim and never thought about the language he mights speak at home, although all my knowledge indicates it must have been Polish. As for his writings, no wonder it was in Latin (] of his day, esp. in science). He had also extensive German contacts. Note that only around ]'s death, first literary works in Polish were published. ] (esp. in writing) was still a toddler in the 16th century. -- ] from ] |
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== 1497:Canon of Frauenburg == |
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* Copernicus is generally regarded as Polish, and in terms of the political geography of his time, this is undoubtedly correct. Torun, his place of birth, had passed from the suzerainty of the Order of Teutonic Knights to that of the King of Poland shortly after his father's arrival there from Krakow. However, ethnically both his mother and father were most likely of German origin. The family name can be traced to the town of Koppernigk near Neisse in Silesia, which was inhabited by Germans in the 14th century at the time of immigration from that region eastwards into Poland. No known letter written by him was in ] - they were all in ] or ] - but native languages weren't widely used in writing at that time. |
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* He was definitely Polish by allegiance (in terms of the feudal politics of the time). In 1512, Copernicus as Canon of the Chapter of Frombork swore allegiance to King Sigismundus I of Poland. In 1520, after the outbreak of war with the Teutonic Knights, Copernicus was a member of the Polish embassy to the Grand Master requesting restoration of Braniewo to Poland. He also organized the defence of Olsztyn against the Order. |
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* But in any case, modern concepts of nationalism did not exist in his era, so the question is really an anachronism. |
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The current WP article refers of his son Andreas in the role of Augustianin canon of the Cathedral of Frauenburg. But the same charge took to Nicolaus, in 1497, when he was in Italy yet (source: Holmes Charles Nevers, Popular Astronomy, Vol. 24, , in ]). |
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At that time many city dwellers in Poland was non-Polish ethnically and spoke German at home. Polish-or-German is ethnic, not |
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national question, as there was no nationality at that time. Copernicus was most probably of German origins, his name is |
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German and there isn't any prove that he even spoke Polish. That looks like a German living in Poland. |
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-- ] |
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The same information is also provided by {{cite journal|first1=David Eugene|last1=Smith|author-link1=David Eugene Smith|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927718/?page=5|title=Medicine and Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century|PMC=7927718|PMID= 33943138|journal=Ann Med Hist.|date=July 1, 1917|volume= 1|issue=2|pages=125–140|format=PDF|OCLC=12650954|access-date=July 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515201754/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927718/pdf/annmedhist148575-0021.pdf|archive-date=May 15, 2021|url-status=live}} (here cited p. 129). This book dates back to 1917 and is also an alternative source about the Copernicus' masters of mathematics and astronomy: Peuerbach, Regiomontanus, Domenico Maria, and Brudzewski. All of them are actually sourced by a unique monography (Dobrzycki and Hajdukiewicz (1969)). Regards, Theologian81sp |
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considered polish. |
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For example, Einstein is usually cited as an American physicist |
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of german origin, so Copernicus would be a Pole of German origin. |
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Just my non-expert opinion. --AstroNomer |
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== A monumental scandal == |
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An enormous bulk of evidence about Copernicus having been ethnically German and of Polonising German topography has been "archived". The present article carefully avoids the terms German or Polish for the ethnicity of the man because the evidence is clear that he was German - with a German father and a German mother, who will have taught him the German and not the Polish language. And the article Polonises all place names in Prussia that got Polish names only in the 20th century, but misses out on Danzig. - A monumental scandal and a disgusting disgrace. ] (]) 23:21, 19 May 2023 (UTC) |
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Here Einstein is usually cided as a Jewish physicis and Columbus as Italian, not Spanish, sailor. |
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:Columbus' father, mather, sister and 2 brothers were Italians, ''genovesi'' (from Genoa). They had in Genoa a huge business in wine and tissues (you know where the jeans comes from?). Strange, Columbus too was accidentally born in Italian Genoa. I wonder why some still insist in saying he was Italian... |
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:True, but both sides have valid arguments, it's best to leave nationality out of this ] (]) 19:55, 29 May 2023 (UTC) |
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In medieval times country wasn't that important. In feudalism, countries and pseudo-countries went up and down all the time. |
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::No they don't it's not even a discussion. He was quite obviously ethnically German but wikipedia is leftist political propaganda at it's finest. This site truly has become a disgrace. ] (]) 11:47, 9 July 2023 (UTC) |
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The only thing that could be reliably traced is ethnicity. |
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:::I would say Misplaced Pages is Western-centered and racist towards Eastern and Central Europeans with figures such as Copernicus or Sklodowska-Curie being Westernized in articles (which itself on the main webpage with news and trivia mentions in 90% only West-related things and takes Western perspective. Ergo, it's not international but English/West-centered. |
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:::Now not mentioning Copernicus nationality because it's not relevant is fairly silly concerning the fact that somehow other figures of that time like let's say Durer or Caravaggio magically have some nationality. ] (]) 20:58, 23 April 2024 (UTC) |
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:The current article represents a hard-earned consensus, after monumental disruption by editors who aggressively espoused competing assertions of nationality. Please don't start that again. '''<span style="font-family: Arial;">] <small>]</small></span>''' 19:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC) |
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:We have been through this. Several times. There are definitive arguments for Copernicus being a loyal subject of the Polish crown in territory ultimately subject to the Polish king - which is a good definition of being Polish. There is the definitive argument of Copernicus subscribing to the German Natio in Bologna and his suriving works in German (and Latin). The rest is more or less speculation (some more, some less). We DO know that this debate runs over centuries now, and finding a consensus here took a decade or two. Just accept him to be in the heritage of both nations, at best a connecting rather then a dividing aspect of history. ] (]) 06:48, 19 June 2023 (UTC) |
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::He was Half-Polish by birth, German in name, but he lived in Poland, it half because Lived in Poland+Half polsh= Half Polish, and German in name+Half German=Half German ] (]) 09:09, 19 June 2023 (UTC) |
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Actually, medieval ethnicity is a problem. In the Early Middle Ages (my end of the field) one of the real research growth areas is ethnicity-building. For instance, it is now quite clear that all those Germanic tribes (Ostro- and Visigoths, Lombards, Vandals, Heruli, Franks, etc., etc.) were very fluid concepts. We always knew that the Heruli had sort of dissolved into the Ostrogoths, but now it's clear that the Burgundians and the Bavarii were entirely composite groups - and the Bavarii Dukes were all Franks. Ethnicity is no clearer in the Middle Ages than it is today. Allegiance was clear - if someone changes allegiance, they have to swear a new and public oath. The *reasons* for that allegiance may or may not be 'volk'ish. |
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:::NO. What's that even supposed to mean? By birth? He was born in a German family in a German build, German inhabited city. You people are insane. ] (]) 11:49, 9 July 2023 (UTC) |
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::::It is likely his father was a Germanized Pole, he also spent years in Polish cities and universities, such as ] in Krakow. ] (]) 11:54, 9 July 2023 (UTC) |
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::::The definition of leftist isn't anything you happen to disagree with. In fact, the view of Copernicus as Polish is popular with the Right in Eastern Europe. ] (]) 12:02, 9 July 2023 (UTC) |
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::::This is nonsense. His father Mikołaj Kopernik, after whom Copernicus got his name and surname, was a Pole from Kraków, his mother Barbara Watzenrode was a German from Toruń. Copernicus himself was born in Polish Prussia, spent his childhood there, then graduated from the Kraków Academy and later several other European universities, then returned to Poland and actively fought against the germanization of Prussia by the German Teutonic Order. He took part in the Polish-Teutonic War of 1519–1521 on the side of Poland. You can't make a full German out of him, no matter how much you want to, don't rewrite history. ] (]) 16:50, 24 July 2023 (UTC) |
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:::::>"This is nonsense." |
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:::::Is it necessary to start your contribution this way? You could simply present your source. Especially when... |
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:::::>"His father Mikołaj Kopernik, after whom Copernicus got his name and surname, was a Pole from Kraków" |
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:::::... makes these sources obligatory. The problem is that there is no primary source that can confirm this, just speculation from various scholars, who often have their bias - unless I am mistaken and new evidence was unveiled. Coming from Krakow is no proof of cultural heritage with around 20% Germans there at that time. |
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:::::There is not much that we DO know for sure, and I already listed it. It is insufficient to decide one way or the other, and Misplaced Pages can but record it this way. |
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:::::Both Poland and Germany had multicultural states on their territory back around 1500, with cultural Poles living in Germany and cultural Germans in Poland - a status that creates many people in between and that continues one way or the other since today. If anything, Copernicus ambiguity in that regard embodies this bond. ] (]) 12:02, 28 July 2023 (UTC) |
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::::::Neitzer Germany nor Poland had ever multicultural states on their territories. ] (]) 09:23, 14 November 2023 (UTC) |
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:::::::The HRE, the Empire, covered Frisians, French, Italian, Danish and many Slavian areas. There were also many German areas outside of it. |
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:::::::The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth included, beside Germans and Hungarians, a multitude of Slavic cultures from the Baltics through Ruthenia to the Black Sea. ] (]) 06:05, 6 December 2023 (UTC) |
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:The Polonising of the names of German cities and regions that became occupied by Poles only in the 20th century is infantile, mad and disgusting. ] (]) 09:21, 14 November 2023 (UTC) |
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::And this is not a forum for nationalist complaints. '''<span style="font-family: Arial;">] <small>]</small></span>''' 12:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC) |
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:::If in doubt, use the regulations of the Gdańsk (Danzig) Vote. See the intro of this article. ] (]) 06:07, 6 December 2023 (UTC) |
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"His father was a merchant from Kraków (Krakau) and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant.[13" |
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But: the father´s side of Upper Silesian and the mother´s side od Lower Silesian origin. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 20:11, 26 December 2023 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--><br> |
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Why (Krakau)?] (]) 23:45, 12 March 2024 (UTC) |
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I am amazed to find that there is actually a discussion going on and it is not just blindly |
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copied what almost all the modern historians for the last 50 years have been echoing. |
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For Nicolaus Copernicus read http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04352b.htm -Cath. Encyl. not always right, but much better than most books ( because written before WW I ). |
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Nicolaus never signed his name starting with - M -which he would have done if he was Polish, then he would have had the name or signed it M - Mikolaj . |
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He never spoke or wrote any word of Polish . He did write Latin and Greek . The official language in Prussia , where he was born, was Low German Hanseatic Platt . He was born in a Hanseatic city , that means only German language people were citizen of the city. Thorn or in Latin Thorunensis was in Culmerland ,Kulmerland . This was and is Old Prussi land . The people in the country and villages spoke old Prussian, see wikipedia Baltic, Prussian Language . His uncle , Lucas Watzenrode or Watzelrode was bishop of Ermland , that meant governor. |
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see the Catholic encyclopedia www.newadvent above for Ermland, independend bishopric, Culm , |
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The allegiences were Feudal laws, pledges to an individual, and from him again to the next higher individual. |
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The only correct answer is , Copernicus was born in Thorn or Latin Thorun , Prussia ( Culmer Land ,later Kulmerland if you want to be more specific) and he lived and died in Frauenburg ,Prussia and Heilsberg , Prussia. |
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For church records from Thorn, Heilsberg,Braunsberg, Frauenburg see http://www.familysearch.com go to records-to places, type in the towm , then click on church record . You will find films taken |
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by LDS of the original Kirchenbuecher- churchbooks. |
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Did the Elector or the Duke of Prussia of the Hohenzollern elector family of the Holy Roman Empire become Polish, because he gave an allegiance to an uncle (Sigismund I ), his mothers brother. ? Did the Polish dukes or kings become German , when they pledged allegiances to the German emperors ? |
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The people of Thorn did not become Polish , when again under the Feudal law they refused to pledge allegiance to the Teutonic Knights. |
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There was no state nationality , there was only citizenship. This meant if you wanted to live and work in a city and wanted to become a citizen you applied to the city council , which was the sole responsible government of a Hanseatic city. Then you became a citizen of that city , not of the city next door. |
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Is there a page in Misplaced Pages regarding ethnicity and nationalism in the 1400s-1500s? If so, could someone share that link? If not, some of the above might make for an interesting discussion. It appears to deserve attention as a topic. I don't feel competent to construct it, however (guess that makes me a Wikiwimp). --] |
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Why "possibly" ? Is there anything that suggests otherwise ? --] |
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::Hi ] -- yes, there are arguments to the contrary -- read the above discussion. One regular contributor claims that Copernicus was German, the majority say Polish, but that his ethnicity may have been German...] |
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Hanseatic city of Thorn ,( Civitatis Thorun(ensis) in Latin ) is located in Prussia, Kulmerland Culmerland (Culmigeria on the map )to the bottom left of the map . This map is from circa 1600 (published 1660) . It is also available re-published by Royal Geographic Society as "Blaeu's The grand Atlas of the 17th Century World ( Barnes & Noble). |
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T # 98 Index A-Z of the World- Atlas , but no Polonia ??? |
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The map depicts not the country of Prussia, which simply did not exist in Copernicus' times, but a Polish province of Prussia, west part of which (the monastic state of Prussia, later Ducal Prussia) was administered by the German Order of Teutonic Knights, under direct suzerainity to Polish king. Copernicus, however, lived in the eastern part of that province, called Royal Prussia, an integral part of the Poland - Lithuania Commonwealth. Therefore any speculations trying to place Copernicus outside of Poland are absolutely untrue. Space Cadet. |
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<b>Polish or German?</b> |
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Copernicus is regarded as Polish, and in terms of the political geography of his time, this is undoubtedly correct. ], his place of birth, had passed from the suzerainty of the Order of ] to that of the King of ] shortly after his father's arrival there from ]. However, ethnically both his mother and father were most likely of German origin. The family name can be traced to the town of Koppernigk near ] in ], which was inhabited by Germans in the 14th century. No known letter written by him was in the ] -- they were all in ] or ]. However, that means little, as Latin was at the time the international language of scholars and those letters in German may have been addressed to Germans and therefore written in that language. |
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He was definitely Polish by allegiance (in terms of the politics of the time). In 1512, when he was Canon of the Chapter of ], Copernicus swore allegiance to King ] of Poland. In 1520, after the outbreak of war between Poland and the ], Copernicus was a member of the Polish embassy to the Grand Master requesting restoration of ] to Poland. He also organized the defence of ] against the Order. |
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I think there must be a mention to the controversy (i put a very short paragraph about it), even if its not a detailed one. |
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HJ -- what you continue to do to this article is inexcusable. You are taking something created with NPOV, and just putting in what you, in your uninformed world, consider the truth. Moreover, your little "let's just say people can't agree" at the end was misleading. The truth is, most scholars do agree. You just don't want to accept that people had a very different world-view about nationality and ethnicity before the 19th century. Please stop -- what you are doing is worse than vandalism -- it is propogating half-truths, in the hope that you'll get away with them because many people don't know better. ] |
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your slanderous name-calling is unacceptable. You cannot even tell that I did not write the words, that you claimed I wrote and yet you want to pass yourself off as being a correct scholar. Copernicus was born in Thorn in Prussia. You do not have the right to say, it was in Poland, because it was not. Instead of searching for facts and correcting mistakes, you perpetuate them by your own false statement, that Copernicus was born in Thorn in Poland. |
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While I wrote this, Gianfranco's comment came it. I agree with Gianfranco. |
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I think we should keep on a more "encyclopedic" tone on the matter: the question of his nationality (whatever might it really represent, conclude or otherwise produce), effectively WAS widely discussed, with complex reasons proposed by both sides - for evident reasons. Whatever the final result or whatever the personal opinions on the real collective need of such a topic, we should consider (IMHO) that a relevant debate was going on for centuries and perhaps (as we can see) is not over. Many people weren't perhaps even aware that a such a debate existed, before reading this article. |
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{{Edit semi-protected|Nicolaus Copernicus|answered=yes}} |
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None of us is wrong, and none of us is right, just because coming from one rather than from another world. Each of use responds of him/herself. And we are here to provide information, and (hopefully) contents, to uninformed worlds too, if we can decipher which ones they really are. |
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In the "Commemoration" section of the article, in the subsection titled "Poland", in the second paragraph change the " in Poland's third largest city, Łódź." to " in Poland's fourth largest city, Łódź." |
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In the article the city of Łódź is called Poland's third largest city. In the data provided in the (data from 20th July 2023), the population of Łódź city has dropped and currently city of Wrocław has surpassed Łódź in the number of population. ] (]) 10:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC) |
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Wouldn't it be more useful to better describe Copernicus' contribution to general culture instead of giving all the attention to this (IMHO) quite useless debate? --] |
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:{{done}}<!-- Template:ESp --> This is also verified and cited on the ] page. ] (]) 18:58, 28 April 2024 (UTC) |
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:Gianfranco, it would be much more useful, but I would like to see evidence of this so-called widespread debate -- at least before the 19th century. I have not been around much of late, and you were not present when Frau Jonat began to infest this site with articles that demonstrate a narrow, irredentist, POV. To the best of my knowledge, which is well grounded in European history and its research methodology, the kind of claims that belong to this debate are grounded in late-19th and early 20th century ethnic nationalism. They do not reflect the thinking of Copernicus' time. |
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== Semi-protected edit request on 14 May 2024 == |
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:This is why several wikipedians contributed to the article as it stood before Fr. Jonat jumped back in with her, "Copernicus is Prussian and that's all there is to it," argument, which you improved somewhat. The problem is, of course, that by doing so, you have encouraged the idea that this debate is central to understanding Copernicus. As you point out above, it is minimal. |
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::Really, I had heard many years ago of this nationalistic dispute, and when I read this page (with all this attention to the point) I made a quick search on books to better remember. I then added what I found in an old abstract, where no details are given about the times of the debate, so I just took out the fact that the debate lasted for a relevant while (yes, every attribute is relative), if I well understood it. |
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in the Work section, "till" is used in "(or perhaps till his uncle's death on 29 March 1512)" and i believe this should be changed to until ] (]) 16:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC) |
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::Of course, we needed first to consider Copernicus "important" in a modern sense, for this nationalistic dispute to have a meaning, and this could only happen in the last centuries. So, I am not contesting at all that the debate was in the times you indicated. |
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::I sincerely regret if my notes produced the result of giving even more importance to this matter, I had merely tried to give a draft of note that could explain what the thing was about, in order to provide NPOV elements to solve this stall and sooner get back to our good old "Nick". If we had spent just a third of the energies used for this "debate's debate" to develop instead the real topic, we would now read - i.e. - what his theories represented for the evolution of science, religion, culture. Not a minor issue, maybe. |
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::Let's try this way: his nationality needs to revolve around his figure, it's not his figure that needs to revolve around his nationality, like the Sun is not revolving around Earth (someone said). :-) --] |
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== Extended-protected status? == |
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I propose that this article be given extended-protected status. It is experiencing an onslaught of neo-nazis. ] (]) 17:44, 22 August 2024 (UTC) |
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:As for you Frau Jonat, first, the correct word, if true, would be libelous, as a website is a quasi-print format. However, it is not true. It's also ridiculous that a woman who has made very personal comments about others on this site would dare to be offended when someone points out scholarly misbehavior (and nothing personal). The facts are clear, and can be demonstrated in almost a year of your contributions: to date, you have repeatedly written articles that are at best misleading and often untrue or incorrect, grounded in part in your refusal to work according to NPOV policy; you have often plagiarized other sources; your contributions are seldom edited for grammar, typos, etc.; you tend to use untrustworthy sources because they support your somewhat rarified point of view. Initially, people assumed that you wanted to contribute to a group project, and tried to help you in interpreting your sources, checking facts, etc. You have clearly demonstrated that you have no interest in working in a collegial manner. It is your refusal to accept that yours is often not the accepted POV, and your willingness, nay, outright determination, to mislead others that I consider vandalism. I stand by that. ] |
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== Successors == |
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Moving text from Nicolaus Copernicus, where it was removed to Talk: |
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The article's "]" section states that "Scholars hold that sixty years after the publication of ''The Revolutions'' there were only around 15 astronomers espousing Copernicanism in all of Europe..." |
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"There were more Germans than Poles living in ] at the time of Copernicus during European Imperial rule. |
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Russians, Poles and Czech had no difficulty in 1945 telling nationality, when nearly all ethnic Germans, many barely speaking any German, nevertheless were ethnically cleansed from Eastern European countries. |
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That implies that all the 15 listed would have survived to the year 1603. |
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These new Slavic countries were formed by military take-overs after WW I. For many centuries German groups had lived there. 1945 it became part of the Polish pattern to claim everything was originally Polish by the Communist military government, lead by Soviet Union. These Communist Poles claim re-gained original Polish territory. Not even the Russian claim anything like that. The majority of people who had to lived under the communist system of propaganda, knew that they were fed lies. |
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At least two of them died before then: ] (1550) and ] (1574). |
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One should remember however, that Stalin had powerful allies that aided him in his undertakings, thus making his total take-over of all of Eastern Europe for decades possible. |
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Copernicus lived for over fourty years in Frauenburg in Ermland in Prussia and he kept daily record books on rentals, incomes, secular and church business. He used his native language and spoke with the native people of the country. He was their physician and only occasionally did he work on his astronomy. He several times signed as his name Kopperlingk, obviously because his father's family business was copper and therefore the Low German Kopper (High German Kupfer) and the -lingk ending indicated someone who is dabbling in copper, a copperling. |
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Should we assume Copernicus' nationality can be ]? ] (]) 23:11, 14 November 2024 (UTC) |
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The paragraph about nationality (and what above) could perhaps be better placed in a separate ] page because: |
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*if we believe that this matter '''is not fundamental''' in describing Copernicus, it would not be appropriated to keep here all this stuff. |
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*if we believe instead that this matter '''is fundamental''' in describing Copernicus, it should deserve a separate page that could give this important discussion all the space it needs. |
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:Do you have NEW evidence that goes beyond those that have been debated here for a decade or two? |
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I agree with Gianfranco here - this "controversy" isn't important enough to warrent anything more than one or two sentences here. It would be more appropriate to have anything more than that elsewhere. --] |
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:If not, leave it as it is. |
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:See my above comment that starts with "We have been through this". ] (]) 22:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC) |
The current WP article refers of his son Andreas in the role of Augustianin canon of the Cathedral of Frauenburg. But the same charge took to Nicolaus, in 1497, when he was in Italy yet (source: Holmes Charles Nevers, Popular Astronomy, Vol. 24, p. 219, in SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)).
An enormous bulk of evidence about Copernicus having been ethnically German and of Polonising German topography has been "archived". The present article carefully avoids the terms German or Polish for the ethnicity of the man because the evidence is clear that he was German - with a German father and a German mother, who will have taught him the German and not the Polish language. And the article Polonises all place names in Prussia that got Polish names only in the 20th century, but misses out on Danzig. - A monumental scandal and a disgusting disgrace. 2001:9E8:25F:FD00:E9AB:E4CF:D944:B901 (talk) 23:21, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
In the "Commemoration" section of the article, in the subsection titled "Poland", in the second paragraph change the " in Poland's third largest city, Łódź." to " in Poland's fourth largest city, Łódź."
In the article the city of Łódź is called Poland's third largest city. In the data provided in the Polish Misplaced Pages (data from 20th July 2023), the population of Łódź city has dropped and currently city of Wrocław has surpassed Łódź in the number of population. BlueBlack22 (talk) 10:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
in the Work section, "till" is used in "(or perhaps till his uncle's death on 29 March 1512)" and i believe this should be changed to until Maddybac (talk) 16:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
I propose that this article be given extended-protected status. It is experiencing an onslaught of neo-nazis. Meellk (talk) 17:44, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
That implies that all the 15 listed would have survived to the year 1603.
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Done This is also verified and cited on the Łódź page. Jamedeus (talk) 18:58, 28 April 2024 (UTC)