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Lucas Watzenrode (anche citato come Lukas o Łukasz) (Toruń, 30 ottobre 1447 – Toruń, 29 marzo 1512) è stato un vescovo cattolico polacco, principe vescovo di Varmia. Niccolò Copernico, figlio di sua sorella, fu segretario di Watzenrode.
Lucas Watzenrode the Younger (sometimes Watzelrode and Waisselrod; German: Lucas Watzenrode der Jüngere; Polish: Łukasz Watzenrode; 30 October 1447 – 29 March 1512) was Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland) and patron to his nephew, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Lucas Watzenrode (also, in German, Lukas; in Polish, Łukasz)(1400, in Thorn, Ermland – 1462, in Thorn) was the maternal grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus. Life. Lucas Watzenrode the Elder was registered in the Thorn citizen registry book (Thorner Bürgerbuch) as landowner, businessmen, judge, councilman, etc., living at ...
Lucas Watzenrode, now Prince-Bishop of Warmia and Senator, one of the first dignitaries of the Polish Kingdom, a highly educated alumnus of Cracow and Bologna Universities, had great hopes for the future of Copernicus and wanted to make him his successor and continuator of his political activities. Despite the high costs involved,
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.
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 ...
Uncle Lucas Watzenrode was then pursuing a successful career in ecclesiastical politics and in 1489 he became Bishop of Varmia. Thus Uncle Lucas could easily send Copernicus and his younger brother to the old and distinguished University of Krakow.
