Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned astronomer, was born to a merchant named Nicolaus Copernicus Sr. and a woman named Maria (née Schilling) Copernicus. His father was of Polish descent, while his mother came from a family of German merchants. After his father's death when Copernicus was about ten, his mother raised him and his siblings.
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