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Lucas Watzenrode died in 1512 and following this Copernicus resumed his duties as canon in the Ermland Chapter at Frauenburg. He now had more time than before to devote to his study of astronomy, having an observatory in the rooms in which he lived in one of the towers in the town's fortifications.
This reconstruction also suggests that the turning point in 1510, when Copernicus left his post as secretary to his uncle Lucas Watzenrode the prince-bishop of Warmia, was not only linked to Copernicus's first version of his heliocentric theory in the Commentariolus, but also to major political setbacks being experienced by Watzenrode during these years, and with the publication of Copernicus ...
His mother’s brother Lucas Watzenrode – the future Bishop of the Warmian Chapter – took the family under his wing. [View of Kraków] Casmirus, Cracovia, Clepardia (1493) by Michael Wohlgemuth or Wilhelm Pleydenwurff Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork
Abstract. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland, on February 19, 1473. When his father died in 1483, his maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode (who became bishop of Varmia in 1489), took over responsibility for him and his older brother.
22 dic 2023 · After the death of his father in 1483, Copernicus was taken under the care of his maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode the Younger, a leading cleric and soon to be Prince-Bishop of Warmia. Watzenrode’s influence and support played a significant role in shaping Copernicus’s education and future career. Education
Watzenrode was born in Thorn (Toruń), son of the merchant Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–62). He studied at Jagiellonian University, and at the universities of Cologne and Bologna. After his sister Barbara and her husband Niklas Koppernigk died circa 1483, Lucas cared for their four children, Katharina, Barbara, Andreas and Nicolaus, the last of whom would become known as astronomer ...
Lucas Watzenrode. Lucas Watzenrode der Jüngere. Lucas Watzenrode (* 30. Oktober 1447 in Thorn; † 29. März 1512 ebenda) war Fürstbischof des Ermlandes. Sein Vater Lukas Watzenrode der Ältere (1400–1462) war Bürger und Handelsmann in Thorn.
