Barbara Koppernigk
Barbara Koppernigk (* between 1464 and 1470 in Thorn ; † after 1517 in Kulm ) was abbess of the Cistercian convent in Kulm from 1499 until her death. She was the official successor of her step-aunt Katharina Peckau , who has been a nun in the Cistercian monastery in Kulm since 1464 and who was designated abbess on May 4, 1494 by her step-brother Lucas Watzenrode , the prince-bishop of Ermland . Katharina Peckau probably died of the plague in 1498/99.
Barbara Koppernigk was the oldest sister of Nicolaus Copernicus . Her niece Christina Gärtner , a daughter of her younger sister Katharina Koppernigk and the merchant Bartel Gärtner , also became a nun in Kulm, but later resigned from the order and married Kaspar Stulpawitz, a military man from Königsberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Schmauch: The youth of Nicolaus Copernicus . In: Copernicus research . Leipzig, 1943
- ↑ Johannes Papritz : The descendant table of Lukas Watzenrode . In: Copernicus research . Leipzig, 1943
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koppernigk, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbess of the Cistercian monastery in Kulm |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1464 and 1470 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1517 |
| Place of death | Kulm |