Talk:Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

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Nipkow: Nationality
If you think Nipkow had a casubian background, then please proof it. Nipkow was born, lived and died in Germany, when his home was not yet "Polish administrated" as it is still today - unfortunatly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.157.27.92 (talk) 23:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Nipkow Nationality
Paul Nipkow was indeed of Polish Kaszubian origin. He was born in former Polish lands, specifically in Kaszubia in Lebork, which the Germans had renamed Lauenburg. Of course his nationality was German, because Prussia (Germany) had annexed that part of Poland and Nipkow was technically a German citizen. Any scientist of Polish origin had to go to Berlin and speak German in order to advance his career. The clue to his ethnicity is the "-kow" ending of his surname which indicates Polish origin. The books Television Technology Demystified by Alexander Todorovic, Televiosn Encyclopedia by Stanley Kempner and others call Nipkow a German scientist of Polish origin.Myszkowiak (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The family name is not always a reliable hint, because german family names are often names that refer to a village or any place where ancestors had lived. In the time when familiy names still had not been completely established someone names Peter who moved from Berlin to Hamburg could have been called "Peter Berliner" in his new home. Many eastern german villages and cities have an originally slavic name, even "Berlin" is originally slavic. That doesnt mean that the family name "Berliner" is an indication of slavic origin of those who bear the name. In other cases, slavic family names come from a slavic ancestor, but this one might have lived so many generations before that the slavic "origin" is just the origin of the name, not of the person, who has much more non slavic ancestors. In Nipkows case, i dont know how it is. --Malzkorn (talk) 17:03, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Maybe he is more Jewish ethnic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.246.197.118 (talk) 23:23, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Television is about moving pictures, what Alexander Bain did is not
While Alexander Bain had transmitted images telegraphically in the 1840s those where only still images (an so a kind of precursor of telefax) but the Nipkow disk allowed for moving pictures and thus television. This is an important difference. 77.6.148.248 (talk) 00:18, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Credits
"one of the first successful technologies for television transmission" --- wrong, it was THE first technology for tv transmission. Maybe this will upset our so-called "friends" in America, because they could not credit any of their own "inventors" ... --77.6.113.32 (talk) 18:54, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

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