Kopernikus, Nikolaus
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!["Toruń portrait" (c. 1580)[a] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi/?iiif=cache%2Ff228a818025b017b1c3c5d3c4a33f2bc.tif/full/,340/0/native.jpg "\"Toruń portrait\" (c. 1580)[a] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg
Basic data
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Copernicus, Nicolaus Alternative Names
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February 19, 1473 in Thorn
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†May 24, 1543 in Frauenburg (Ostpreußen)
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Astronom, Mathematiker, Domherr, Jurist, Arzt
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Frauenburg
Iconography
!["Toruń portrait" (c. 1580)[a] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg "\"Toruń portrait\" (c. 1580)[a] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Copernicus holding lily-of-the-valley: portrait in Nicolaus Reusner's Icones (1587).[50][n] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kopernikus,_Nikolaus_-_Reu%C3%9Fner_1578_Portrait1.jpg "Copernicus holding lily-of-the-valley: portrait in Nicolaus Reusner's Icones (1587).[50][n] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Photo of a mid-16th-century portrait[t] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolas_Copernicus_Polish_cropped.JPG "Photo of a mid-16th-century portrait[t] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
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- It is a well known person where enough information is available online elsewhere, see e.g Wikipedia
