Talk:Aleksander Brückner

message: Add some heading and inline itations, and it's easily a B-class article. Wizardman 16:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Aleksander Brückner is called Polish even on German Wikipedia (despite your quick recent attempt to change that).  Think about that for a moment before you make more reverts.  Consider that just because someone has a German sounding name, that does not make him a German.  And the fact that Galicia belonged to Habsburg Austria certainly does not make all of its inhabitants German. Balcer 03:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's you who is trying to strip this great Polish scholar of his nationality.  What else is new? Balcer 06:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Surely you are not claiming that there were no Poles in the world in the 19th century because the country was erased from the map. Balcer 18:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Please educate yourself about 19th century European history.  This might help you interpret old maps correctly, and not jump to silly conclusions. Congress Poland was indeed a part of Russia, but Poland as a whole was not, by any definition. Consult this map.Balcer 02:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[User talk:75.8.225.41]]

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On the most central questions of Slavic scholarship, he described the Slavic borrowings in the Lithuanian language in his book Lito-Slavische Studien, Die Slavischen Fremdwörter im Litauischen and he stressed that this common Balto-Slavic bond developed by the close contact of Lithuanians and Russians (Belorus) by the 1500s AD and the later strong influence of Polish, when in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth only the common village people were able to continue speaking Lithuanian. He bemoaned the mixing of the different languages and noticed that often Polish clergy used Polish words and just added Lithuanian endings. He noticed that the Latvian language did not undergo the Slavisation, because from its earliest times of christianity, preachers were of Latvian language. He placed the original homeland of the Slavs farther west than most Slavists, on the territory of today's Poland. He believed that the apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, had originated the idea of their mission on their own, and he played down the invitation from Moravia; and finally, in a polemic with the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, he took a Normanist position on the origins of the Rus', stressing the linguistic and historical evidence for a Scandinavian connection.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.137.201.57 (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professor Alexander Brückner's book ''Lito-Slavische Studien, Die Slavischen Fremdwörter im Litauischen'' on borrowed Slavic words in Lithuanian language 

message: Hello all,
I am related to Aleksander Bruckner. He was my Great Grandfathers cousin. The name still runs in my family- it is the maiden name of my Grandma Ola ( Aleksandra). I'm sorry to say for those of you who were rooting for him to be German he was indeed Polish. I'm living proof. 
Cheers,
teatime333  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teatime333 (talk • contribs) 20:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aleksander Bruckner family member