Early Life
The family and its name stemmed from the Silesian village of Weizenrodau ("wheat uprooting"). Watzenrode was born in Thorn (Toruń), son of the merchant Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–62). He studied at Jagiellonian University and at Cologne and Bologna.
After his sister Barbara and her husband Niklas Koppernigk died about 1483, Lucas cared for their four children, Katharina, Barbara, Andreas and Niklas, the last of whom would become known as astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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