Talk:Gdańsk Research Society

Would it not have been called the Danzig Research Society, considering that at the time the cities name WAS Danzig (IE, prior to the Polish invasion)? - Yes, it was called Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig, because that was the official city name.

However this Wikipedia is oversaturated with Polish Patriots, who care for only one thing and that is: as many Wikipedia articles as they can possibly get away with, absolutely have to have Polish names, Polish titles, Polish language as much as possible (with a little bit of English sprinkled in). MG

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The name of the city was ALWAYS Gdańsk. It was founded in 980 by the Poles. Gdańsk Research Society on the other hand was founded in 1743 when the city was an integral part of Poland since 1466. What invasion are you talking about? What is "IE". "Id est"? Then it's spelled "i.e.". Thank you for calling me a patriot instead of a nationalist, for a change. Space Cadet 00:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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Well -- actually -- Space Cadet --Gdansk-- as it is called nowadays- celebrated its 1000 years anniversary in 1997, that would make the foundation in 997 not 980.

In the 980's there were Dansk, that means Danish and other Viking trader-raders all over northern Germany and beyound, went on rivers, Elbe, Oder, Vistula, Memel/Njemen and all the way to the Black Sea.

A few years earlier and again in 997 Polish troops (or was that Vikings?) did come to the Baltic Sea area of todays Gdansk, where they tried to conquer other people's land (that is Prussians), and repeatedly afterwards too.

So 1997 was really a convenient year to use as anniversary, because in 997 was actually the year when Adalbert of Prague and his Polans troops sent by Boleslaw I Chrobry tried to 'convert the native Prussians'. And actually - Space Cadet- the military installations, that Boleslaw I and perhaps his dad Mieszko I built, while they tried to conquer the land, were on settlements, which were there for centuries already. So the description as Gedanum/Gdansk goes back a long time to the Gothic-mixed in Dansk coast along the Baltic Sea, also known as Mare Suebicum or Mare Germanicum: and into Prussian land. Oh, yes, why is it, that you and your Polish Patriots are always so anxious to remove all these historical facts, such as this old map, as you did on the Wikipedia article Baltic Sea and at everything else, that is situated in Eastern Germany (oops I mean Former Eastern Germany, always has been Western Poland).

Now when after Adalbert of Prague's martyrdom his life history was recorded soon afterwards, this 'Gothic/ Gedanum/Gdansk coast became famous. The actual city charter, that means official city foundation, was as Danzig in 1224 (Sigillum Burgensium Danzicke).

The official city name remained Danzig uninterupted from 1224 until 1945, when it was conquered and renamed Gdansk.

Conclusion: the city name may have always been Gdansk to the temporary conquerers, but as the records show, when the society was founded in 1743, it was the Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig. MG 2/17/2006 -