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According to a later horoscope, Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, in Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River south of the major Baltic seaport of Gdansk. Both his father, Nicolaus, and his mother, Barbara Watzenrode, were leading merchants. After his father's death, sometime between 1483 and 1485, his mother's brother, Lucas Watzenrode (1447-1512) took Nicholas under his protection. Watzenrode, soon to be bishop of the chapter of Varmia (Warmia), and saw Nicholas' future career as a church canon.
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