Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli

Nicolaus Comnenus Papadopoli (Italian Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Greek Nikolaos Papadopoulos Komninos Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Παπαδόπουλος; * January 6, 1655 in Crete, † January 20, 1740 in Padua ) was an Italian canon lawyer and historian of Greek origin.

Life and work

He was born as the son of an official of the Venetian administration in Candia, now Heraklion ( Ηράκλειο ).

At the University of Padua, he worked as a librarian and was in 1726 under the title Historia Gymnasii Patavini a two -volume work on the history out. It took place in various countries for referenced therein prominent personalities attention, with Papadopoli ultimately became known for his mistakes: In England it was particularly interested in his anecdotes from the life of Oliver Cromwell. However, since the (later) Lord Protector had never resided in Italy, must Papadopolis ' here a confusion be positioned eat or have knowingly spread an untruth.

In the historical research of Germany and Poland was long Papadopolis indication, Nicolaus Copernicus had enrolled to study medicine at the national Polona. After the mid-19th century, among other things Baldassare Boncompagni and Antonio Favaro checked the old matriculation and found that it at the time in Padua were no Polish connection, in which he later astronomer could have app. Thus, the representation Papadopolis went down in the history of Copernicus biographies as Papadopoli fake. Carlo Malagola researched the records of the University of Bologna and found that there is a 1496 Nicolaus Kopperlingk de Thorn was recorded in the files of the National Germanica - which, however, does not prove where instead had with the non-existent National Polona Copernicus actually enrolled in Padua. The error and correct documents in Germany to bring into general consciousness, was the merit of Copernicus biographer Leopold Prowe.

Papadopolis known work on canon law are the Prænotiones mystagogicæ ex jure canonico. In it, he wrote about the validity or invalidity of marriages Orthodox priest, received after ordination marriages are prohibited, but still valid.