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[edit] Welcome

Hello, DaQuirin, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] The Turk

Thanks for catching that. Do you know if Paul_I_of_Russia was the one I should have been directing it to? Thanks. --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure, but I will try to check. And thank you for your effort (improving the article on the 'Chess Turk'). --DaQuirin 00:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Paul_I_of_Russia is correct. Tom Standage mentions in his book Prince Paul, the 'eldest son' of Catherine the Great. --DaQuirin 11:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Göttingen manuscript

Thanks for your fixes to Göttingen manuscript. I've looked at that page dozens of times, but still managed to miss simple typos and other infelicities. Quale 15:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ger.-Polish places

You make some good points about the Poles' treatment of the former German cities. They are indeed masterful restorers. However, I don't think the fact that the ex-Marienkirche in Danzig, for example, has been substantially restored and today exists as the Bazylika Mariacka means that Danzig as a city still exists. In it's place is Gdańsk, in many respects an interesting Polish city which, ethnically and culturally, is very different from Danzig, despite the presence of architectural artifacts from the ur-Stadt, if you will, that preceded it.

A case in point is the chuch mentioned above. Formerly it was the largest Protestant church in the world. Today it is the largest brick church in the world, and it is a Catholic church. Understand, I carry no brief for the Protestants and have no antipathy to Catholics. My point is that the people and their language and culture have changed. People are more significant than buildings. Of course, it would be an entirely different situation if the German territories transferred to Poland and the Soviet Union after Potsdam still were inhabited by Germans, as an ethnic minority in those countries, but they're not.

The reason I continue to make these observations on Wiki is to couteract the tendancy of some Poles to discuss these places as if they had always been Polish, and only illegally "occupied" by Germans for five or six centuries, and to disguise the reality of what happened to the German population in 1945-49. This is important because Germans are, and were, human beings, too — as, for example, were the Polish and Jewish residents of Lwów, which no longer exists. In its place is the Ukrainian city of Lviv. Sca (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

PS: For an interesting dicussion of current Polish-German relations, see this interview with Janusz Reiter, former Polish ambassador to Germany:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,527580,00.html
Sca (talk) 17:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your relevant input. The Reiter interview is a good read. The English wikipedia site is a fascinating place, but discussion of history topics here is a disappointing experience (so many hard-fought articles). Old Europe with its nationalisms is still alive! To a certain extent, one must simply accept the psychological background of the Polish approach. But the stubborn denial from some nationalists to make compromises etc. is a sad thing. In the end, it makes Wikipedia a less relevant place to know something about the history of both former East Germany and Poland.... --DaQuirin (talk)


PPS: Ich frage mich, was denken unser polnische Freunde um dieses?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,529320,00.html
Sca (talk) 15:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dalmatian Italians

Looks like the title has already been corrected; let me know if there are further troubles with the title. BTW, would you mind offering your opinion of a suggestion of mine about East Prussia? Olessi (talk) 17:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tocino

He/ She seems to finally have accepted that Malaysia has recognised kosovo. Ijanderson977 (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Algeria

Thanks for your correction. My French is not that good so I used the online translator. Anyway those blog speculations proved to be true Algeria adopted the position of Russia - unless international law changes they can't recognize at this time. --Avala (talk) 23:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carl or Karl Schorn

Hello! In the 19th century a form of Carl was more popular than Karl in Germany (like Curt not Kurt). Schorn used himself Latin form Carl (see for example, http://www.kunstmarkt.de/pagesmag/kunst/_id142974-/news_detail.html?_q=%20 http://muenchen.bayern-online.de/magazin/kultur/kunst/artikelansicht/die-sintflut/ http://www.oldandsold.com/articles36/painters-19.shtml). --Gruß, Mibelz 15:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

First of all, thank you so much for your many chess biographies (you are a busy man!). As for Carl or Karl, the common use was often changing in Germany. Sometimes names were differently spelled in the 19th century (like Karl or Carl Mayet), and for a while - as you say - it was more fashionable to spell "Carl" and so on. The birth (legal) name was in many cases written in the traditional way, so Louis Paulsen was born Ludwig for example, if I remember correctly. As for Schorn, I found in the more authoritative sources always Karl, so in the ADB article [1], Meyers Lexikon or Bachmann's "Aus vergangenen Zeiten", the classical work on Germany's chess history in the 19th century (based here on sources like Deutsche Schachzeitung). You will find some more weblinks in the German Karl Schorn wiki article. Google books gives for "Karl Schorn" /Maler (20) as compared to "Carl Schorn" / Maler (10). So your interesting finds prove only that Carl or Karl still makes not a big difference today or that in fact Schorn used at some time the Carl form. As a matter of fact, Schorn is as both painter and chess player nearly forgotten. So it is interesting, that his unfinished painting "The Deluge" (Sintflut) is now to be restored - the largest (!) painting that the Munich Neue Pinakothek owns... --DaQuirin (talk) 17:10, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
PS The Bilguer handbook writes "Carl Mayet", but again "Karl Schorn". --DaQuirin (talk) 17:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
PS For one of his paintings (the same as in the German wiki article), see Bildarchiv Foto Marburg [2] see "Künstler", "Schorn, Karl"; Neue Pinakothek website gives him only once [3], again "Karl". I don't know why now some new articles give him as "Carl". I suppose, Schorn himself would not much care about it :)) --DaQuirin (talk) 16:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you very much for your really interesting reply. In my opinion both forms, Carl and Karl, are correct. Perhaps, Carl - a Latinised form of the Germanic name Karl - is especially popular in Bavaria (some traces of Roman influence). By the way, it is a common joke in Germany that Bavaria is not part of Germany :)) --Best wishes, Mibelz 17:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deutsche Schachzeitung

Thanks for catching my mistake on Deutsche Schachzeitung. You really pay attention to detail. Quale (talk) 01:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Europameisterschaft in München 1942

Hello! I have just added the Geschichte into German http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Europameister_im_Schach (Europameisterschaft in München 1942). Would you be so kind to look at this, and improve it? Mibelz (talk) 19:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I will try my best. Organizer was the short-lived Europa-Schachbund, inspired by Ehrhardt Post. A crazy chess period. --DaQuirin (talk) 23:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Mibelz 8:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pippa Bacca

I have restored the content to User:DaQuirin/Bacca. If you can rewrite it with some more citations that show the notability of the case then I am prepared to restore it, but at the moment there is not really anything to show why it isn't just another news story about a murder (I remember it myself, but it doesn't appear to be a lasting story). Black Kite 18:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I will try my best. --DaQuirin (talk) 22:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Gyula Makovetz

Dear DaQuirin! Mibelz recommended you as a chess contibutor who knows English and German. The article about Gyula Makovetz seems much better in its German version. Could you please add to the English version? Thank you! --Niemzowitsch (talk) 12:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)