Austria indignant as Mozart makes shortlist for best German of all time

Voting for the "best German of all time" got off to a shaky start yesterday after the Austrian ambassador to Germany complained that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name appears on a list of eligible candidates, is Austrian.
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robert newman
Johann Sebastian Bach - a German in all respects - both physically, culturally and spiritually - a friend of the Reformation and quite simply the foundation of classical music		 12/28/2005
A. Hobbacher Copernicus was rised in the house of his German mother. His language was German, there does not exist an single word written by him in Polish.
During his studies in Italy, he was with the German college, not with the polish.
We may conclude, that by cultural identity he was German, by citizenship he was Polish. Now make your choice.
 10/26/2003
H. Hecht I came across your very interest article on nationalities. As far as I know, Salzburg in the Holy Roman Empire was for many centuries governed as a prince-bishopric (Fuerst-Bistum), where the bishops held imperial ranks equal to other princes of the empire. Austria was a part of this Holy Roman Empire of German Nation until Napoleon's destruction and a new Austrian Empire in 1806.

Nicolaus Copernicus birth place:
The Hanseatic city of Thorn , (Latin T(h)orun), is situatet in (K)Culmerland (latin Culmigeria) in Prussia and not in Poland as you stated. Here is a map by Caspar Henneberg ca 1600 http://wwwtest.library.ucla.edu/libraries/mgi/maps/blaeu/prvssia.jpg
You can locate Alt Thorn (Old Thorn) and Thorn to the south of Danzig. Poland is situated South of Prussia. However in 1945 Soviet Union conquered all German lands east of the Oder-Neisse rivers.

Copernicus died in another state of Prussia, Ermland (Latin Warmia), where he worked in Allenstein and Frauenburg. This was also conquered and occupied by
Soviet Union in 1945. The people of Prussia were then expelled, ethnically cleansed. Russians and Poles were moved in instead.		 9/28/2003
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