User talk:Ulf Heinsohn

November 2008
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I apologise for uploading too often. I prepared the text, used the show function, did my corrections, loaded, but then found again and again mistakes. I will improve that.

1) I added the New Synagogue, because it is one of the architectural landmarks destroyed in the Battle of Berlin and a well known one, at least much better known than the fascist-style buildings of the Japanese and Italian embassies, who in fact survived the war in much better shape than the Memorial church and the Synagogue.

2) I wonder why you added, the New Synagogue was used by the Wehrmacht. I don't think that that was known to the RAF bomber command. Like this you insinuate the New Synagogue was hit on porpuse.

I simply think, i'd say I know, the way of doing air raids in the WW II was much less target-safe than we assume by our today experience. This is, what the list including the Memorial Church, the Zoo, the Synagogue tells us. Otherwise the bomber squad would have propably spared the British embassy, even though it was closed due to the fact that Germany and Britain were at war. Who knows if the British embassy was only sealed or even illegally used for some other purpose. What ever it was, probably unknown to the RAF, its destruction shows the lack of target-safety.

3) I changed the typical German passive-structered sentence "were killed, injured and made homeless" into a English-suited active sentence "the Battle of Berlin killed, injured etc." Why? Because this way of saying it names who was riding, and who ridden, meaning who or what was active, and who or what passive. The typical German-style passive veils that, as if people rather died, than that the air raids killed them.

Sorry for the long comments. Best wishes Ulf HeinsohnUlf Heinsohn (talk) 03:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Occupation of Baltic States
I trust that you find the rewording and change in scope and change placement in the introduction in keeping with the thought you were trying to convey. My first reaction had been to undo your edit since it didn't appear to be related to the article, but then I realized the point you were trying to get across. —PētersV (talk) 01:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree to change as to its scope. To my taste you made a new strong extra statements. My main point was: The Free City of Danzig was not restored in the war's aftermath like the 3 other Baltic states. But a restoration is even out of discussion because of the almost total expulsion and killing of the original citizens. I posted this in Occupation of Baltic States page because this could have happened to the Baltic states as well, with the deportations, killings and settlements by Soviet citizens during the occupation. Especially Estonia and Latvia were on the way to be majorised by anti-indipendentists. You got me right in that.

My second point was: By my formulation I didn't argue ethno-specific as to who wants independence, but as to who was extinguished for there mere reason of being Baltic. My formulation allowed that all inhabitants of the Baltic Soviet Republics, who fought for their independence are equally honoured, regardless of cultural or language background. I can imagine that only few inhabitants of the Baltic states with non-Baltic heritage background wished and fought for Baltic independence. But there were some for sure, maybe I am even wrong and there were many. I simply don't know.

Your formulation insinuates that it would be a matter of culture and language to wish independence. I think it is a matter of mere opinion regardless of one's own language and culture. I may well be an ethnic and culturally proud Russian and be pro Baltic independence because that is healing a historic wrong or because I am more confident in a democratic and prosperous development under the Baltic roof than under the Russian or, or, or …

Best wishes Ulf HeinsohnUlf Heinsohn (talk) 03:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * No insinuation meant. As I've stated elsewhere it's what a person does that makes them a good Baltic citizen, not their ethnicity. On the other hand, to the point about Danzig and Königsberg, once completely Russified or Polonified, there was little impetus to return to their pre-war state as the predominant ethnolinguistic and cultural identities were those of the "replacements." In the case of the Baltics, preservation of culture was preservation of the state.
 * National aspirations take their power from ethno-linguistic and cultural identity. We see it in today's conflicts. —PētersV (talk) 03:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S. Not to discount territorial identities, religious identities... PētersV (talk) 04:34, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, it's gone in any event; in truth, it was a commentary. If you can find a scholarly source that makes the comparison and reference it, the it would no longer be commentary but a scholarly comparison. —PētersV (talk) 14:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Cathedral
I have just rewritten your recent addition to Cathedral, which was hopelessly entangled with Scotland. It's easier to make two sentences that add qualifiers and hope the reader can make sense of it! Would you please read what I have done, to see if I have in fact captured the sense of your intentions.

Also, the article is specifically about functional cathedrals. While the mention of the three Berlin Doms is appropriate to the explanation, I must ask you about Ulm Minster. This sentence is not about churches which are sometimes called "cathedral" mistakenly. It is specifically about functioning cathedrals that are known as "minster", rather than "cathedral". As far as I know, Ulm doesn't function as a cathedral. Can you put me right about this? If it doesn't function as a cathedral, then it is in the same class as Beverley Minster and a few others in England which are cathedral-sized abbey buildings, but not cathedrals, and not within the scope of the article. If it does function as a cathedral, then please put it back. Amandajm (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the textual improvement, I like much better this way.

About Ulm. You are right, Ulm's minster has never been the seat of a bishop. I was seduced to add it because there is Berne, and the minster of Berne has never been the seat of bishop too, neither is it now. I will replace Berne and put Essen and Freiburg, which are both minsters now serving as cathedrals.

Best wishes Ulf Heinsohn Ulf Heinsohn (talk) 23:14, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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Category:House of Estridsen
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I hope I did not offend you, not answering you. I was not too much into the Estridsen dynasty background, I hope somebody familiar with it will take over. I am more specialised in subjects of the Prince-Bishopric of Bremen, thus I happened to have to deal with a member of that dynasty who ascended the Bremian see. In Polish and German there are complete articles about the House of Estridsen de:Haus Estridsson and pl:Estrydsenidzi, which is too much for me to translate them - not even speaking any Polish -, neither I am an expert in it, who read printed sources about the dynasty. I only introduced the category, thinking that would evoke the editing by some expert. I agree to the categorisation under Danish monarchs. Maybe the House of Oldenburg also deserves to be subcategorised or mentioned under the Category Danish Monarchs. Best regards, Ulf Heinsohn (talk) 10:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * That's fine. I don't know much about the Estridsens either.  I'm just sweeping the floor here. --Stepheng3 (talk) 20:09, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Prince-Bishop and Mentz
Hi there! Why do you link to Archbishops of Mentz in the Prince-Bishop article? The Archbishops of Mentz article is just a redirect to Archbishopric of Mainz. Mentz also does not appear to be in common usage anymore. I pointed the link in the Prince-Bishop article directly to the ultimate target of the redirect. imars (talk) 06:08, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

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German city names
Hi Ulf, thanks for your edits, please be aware that in the English wiki German quarters are not hyphened Hamburg-Harvestehude is Harvestehude, Hamburg or only Harvestehude. Thanks and happy editing. Sebastian scha. (talk) 21:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank You
I appreciate your work on Israel Jacobson. Great job! Best, A Sniper (talk) 14:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

San Marino
I think you may have the wrong person. I have never had any discussion about San Marino. Can you point out where I said this. Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 14:38, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Anna Maria Franziska
Hey Ulf, thanks for the work you did on Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg; it's marvellous! -- Jack1755 (talk) 16:10, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Vain repetition
The wikitext of Immanuel Church (Tel Aviv-Yafo) is far too long but this is mainly due to ridiculous repetition of references. Please study this edit (ignore the destroyed Hebrew). Where a ref is identical we use the first time and for subsequent uses. I do not recommend the use of "ibid" because subsequent edits by others such as simple re-ordering of sentences can cause utter confusion. But my "Eisler113" and "Eisler115" refs should give an hint of one approach. &mdash; RHaworth 18:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Agnes of Habsburg
Hi! I noticed you included Agnes of Habsburg as a Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg when she was the Duchess of Saxe-Wittenberg. You can't included Regent consorts or hereditary princesses that will throw everthing off. ie. Augustus, Elector of Saxony was the regent of his nephew Frederick William I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, yet his wife Anne of Denmark wasn't a Duchess of Saxe-Weimar; the same Frederick William I was the regent Christian II, Elector of Saxony yet his wife Anna Marie of the Palatinate-Neuburg was never Electress of Saxony. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 22:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok I see what you mean, but that would only make Agnes co-Duchess of Saxony with her sister-in-law Ingeborg. Maybe you could put them together on the Duchess of Saxony section.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 23:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
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Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg
Hello Ulf Heinsohn. I need a little help. I saw that Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg was link for two different Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg and seperated them into Albert III of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg and Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg. But the question I have to ask you is was Albert III of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg actually a ruling Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg alongside his uncle because Albert's father Otto was older than Wenceslas I and that would make Albert the heir of his uncle Rudolf II not Wenceslas. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 08:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

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Thuringia and Meissen
Hey do you remember me? I helped you with the Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg on the List of Saxon consorts. I notice your work on List of dukes of Schleswig and List of rulers of Schleswig-Holstein and also the succession boxes on each rulers. Well I was wondering if you have time to fix up the List of Margraves of Meissen and List of rulers of Thuringia. --Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 23:36, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Saxon consort
I noticed on a lot of your articles about the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg you plsce saxon consort in the spouse type when spouse or consort would just be fine. It makes no sense to say "On 9 April 1668 Julius Francis married in Sulzbach Hedwig of the Palatinate (Sulzbach, *15 April 1650 – 23 November 1681*, Hamburg), daughter of Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, making her the Saxon consort." There was more than one Duke of Saxony during this time and their wives were all "Saxon consorts" which is just a general term I made up for these women.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 10:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Catherine of Brunswick and Lunenburg (disambiguation)
Why did you create name this article Catherine of Brunswick and Lunenburg? I know this is the accurate way to translate "Braunschweig-Lüneburg" but the most common form seem to be "Brunswick-Lüneburg" not Brunswick and Lunenburg.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 05:56, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Quirinus of Rome
Hello Ulf, can you please fix this? --de:user:Nb 18:27, 25 March 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.52.165.183 (talk)

Marking edits as "minor"
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Hitzacker
Hi Ulf, thanks for helping with the links and the (medieval?) German in this article! --Bermicourt (talk) 16:04, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

List of Roman Catholic dioceses of Germany
I'm going to split the list. :) Benkenobi18 (talk) 20:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * There's a separate 'Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany', category. I've split the list and moved all of your information over there. The other list is for the current, active dioceses. This way people can make changes and updates as they occur without having to worry about the other stuff.

I love your list - just I think this is a better place for it. Benkenobi18 (talk) 20:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * rename fine by me.

Hildesheim Diocesan Feud
Hi Ulf, thank you for your helpful clarification of this classic medieval feud. I have slighted amended your clarifying words about the English translations which I hope portrays the actual situation. Whilst your original words made sense to me, I felt it better to put the translation in quotation marks rather than imply this is an accepted name from the literature. Nevertheless all your amendments are most welcome and certainly I am clearer than I was before. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:38, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Category:Churches in Berlin bombed by the WWII Allied air forces
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Himmelpforten
Ulf, while you are correct that convent is an accurate term, are you aware that you are not using it in the correct technical sense for the medieval community. While the community itself is called a "conventus", which, by the way, is also used for communities of monks, the institution itself was an abbey, and should be called such, until speaking of the time of its conversion to a Stift. In that sense, use of the term convent prior to that event is historically inaccurate. Daniel the Monk (talk) 00:03, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Daniel, before I wrote the entry I thought about the name and looked in my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, which says under the entry «convent»: (1) society of women (called nuns) living apart from others in the service of God. … (2) building(s) in which nuns live and work … So my thoughts were the following: (1) It needs one name, since the institution functioned from its start until its end without major change, nor technical, nor personal, as a place of worship and contemplation for noble unmarried women of certain families (the order of services was not majorly changed by the Reformation, chasubles etc. remained in use); as a feudal lord to its socage farmers etc.; as a territorial entity ranking as an estate with a vote in the diets of the prince-archbishopric; I wanted to give it one naming fitting for all its existence. The fact that the religion was first Roman Catholic, and than Lutheran had never been a major issue (except during the subjection and occupation of the prince-archbishopric, when the convent was dissolved), since the religion would of course be the same which was the dominant faith among the families funding the institution, donating to it, protecting it militarily and whose female relatives entered it. It is unlikely that the institution had ever formed part of the Cistercian Order the integration into supraregional entities was loose or even absent, but it had strong regional (prince-archiepiscopal) ties. (2) Convent fits to be the term for the one name. The term convent (a) takes up the Latin naming, used in seals and most of the documents, (b) according to the Oxford Dictionary it describes a monastery of nuns and its buildings (this is why I chose it, and how I used it, for buildings and the institution) and (c) the term fits even a Lutheran stift. (3) the term Himmelpforten Convent avoids a double naming with the former Himmelpforten Abbey of monks under a chairman called abbot, located near Hasserode in the Harz Mountains. The term Himmelpforten Abbey as head line for this entry at issue would gloss over the fact, besides its double meaning of a church building and the institution as a whole, that this Porta Coeli rather used to be a priory (like Preetz Priory, because of its small size (small number of members), with the term prioress prevailing over the term abbess in smaller societies of women in service for God. Best wishes Ulf Heinsohn (talk) 13:27, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Evangelical Church in Baden
Hello Ulf Heinsohn,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Evangelical Church in Baden for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. AlanS (talk) 10:18, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * , I've withdrawn the nomination for speedy deletion. However the church is still in need of referencing. At present their is only one. AlanS (talk) 11:55, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

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hi, The second building Before the first building? Berlin Cathedral 1451 (first building), ca. 1345 (2nd bldg) Kasir talk 16:49, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hallo Kasir, yes, as described in the wiki entry, the church was first founded as palace chapel and got its first location within the Berlin Palace, however, later, this church was elevated to a collegiate church and thus the small palace chapel was considered unfit, so the collegiate church moved into the older, but bigger building of the St. Paul Church, previously built and owned by the Dominican friars, who again were moved to Brandenburg upon Havel. The naming of the collegiate church was transferred to the former St. Paul's and the college canons took possession of that building, so that the old friary and its name St. Paul's disappeared, while the younger establishment moved from its original location into its second, but older than its first location. Much later again, its next move brought the collegiate church into its next, but then newly erected, third location and later to its present fourth location and then again newly erected building. Confusing but true. Best wishes Ulf Heinsohn (talk) 00:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * There is no such thing as "too long DYK" (a hook can be too long, but the article has no limits). Re his ethnicity, good points, but I suggest keeping such discussion on article's talk for future reference. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:46, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages
Thank you for your recent articles, including Max Samuel, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:12, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

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Israelitisches Familienblatt
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minor edits
Hi, administrator here. You are marking almost all of your edits as "minor", but almost all of them are not minor. That's not allowed. The definition of a minor edit is at Help:Minor edit and you will see that is more like the common notion of "trivial". Please let me know if you have been doing it consciously or it has been appearing as the default for you. (If it's the latter I need to get it fixed.) In any case, please stop doing that. Zerotalk 03:44, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

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