Is Józef Piłsudski the king of modern Poles?

Actually, he was a Lithuanian.

He considered himself a Lithuanian raised in Polish culture, he never called himself an ethnic Pole.

Still they were better Poles than most ethnic Poles.

Wit Stwosz was born under the name Veit Stoß

Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.
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Stoss was born at Horb am Neckar before 1450; his exact date of birth is unknown though it may have been in 1447. Nothing is known certainly of his life before 1473 when he moved to Nuremberg in Franconia and married Barbara Hertz. ....

What about 'they were as good Poles as ethnic Poles'?

why is it with you guys giving Germans polish names???? ;)

Would you prefer 'Brzęczyszczykiewicz'? ;)

Better than Feliks Dzierżyński at least.

The same reason why we call Germans with Polish names is because you call Poles like Kopernik with German ones,we're almost as chauvinistic as Germans, almost :)))

Oh please...don't be so modest! :):):)

You're attempting to claim Polish achievements as your own and you bytch about Poles giving Germans Polish names?

why is it with you guys giving Germans polish names???? ;)

What polish achievements?

Lets see, among some of your better ones "Kraków was so prosperous because it was half German."

"Kopernik was German because his uncle wanted him to be."

"Poland didnt won at Vienna, it was the Germans."

"Poznań is a natively German city."

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moved to Krakow, the royal capital of Poland, at the invitation of the German merchant community, who commissioned him to produce the enormous polychrome wooden Altar of Veit Stoss at St Mary's Church in Krakow.

This was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.[2] Other important works from his period in Poland were the tomb of Casimir IV in Wawel Cathedral, the marble tomb of Zbigniew Olesnicki in Gniezno, and the altar of Saint Stanislaus.

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During the reign of Casimir IV, various artists came to work and live in Kraków, and Johann Haller established a printing press in the city[20] after Kasper Straube had printed the Calendarium Cracoviense, the first work printed in Poland, in 1473.[21][22]

In 1520, the most famous church bell in Poland, named Zygmunt after Sigismund I of Poland, was cast by Hans Behem.[23] At that time, Hans Dürer, a younger brother of Albrecht Dürer, was Sigismund's court painter.[24] Hans von Kulmbach made altarpieces for several churches.[25]

The city was almost entirely destroyed during the Mongol invasions of 1241, 1259 and 1287.[9]
It was rebuilt and incorporated in 1257, based on the Magdeburg law, with tax benefits and trade privileges for its citizens.[10] These citizens were German settlers who moved in during the Ostsiedlung, and who constituted a majority of burghers in contemporary Polish and Bohemian towns.[11]

The 1257 foundation decree issued by Bolesław V the Chaste was unusual insofar that it explicitly excluded the local population.[11] The older Royal fort Wawel was connected to the new town, built on its northern side around the market square, by its former suburbium (Okol).[12]

Germans constituted the majority during the 14th century, and became Polonized in the 16th century.[13]

and the altar of Saint Stanislaus.

The altarpiece of Veit Stoss (Polish: Ołtarz Wita Stwosza, German: Krakauer Hochaltar), also St. Mary's altar (Ołtarz Mariacki), is the largest Gothic altarpiece in the World and a national treasure of Poland.[1]
It is located behind the main altar of St. Mary's Church, Kraków, Poland.

What do you mean?

He did main altar at St. Mary church but not the one in Wawel Cathedral, as you said in your quote.

....were the tomb of Casimir IV in Wawel Cathedral...

his was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.[2] Other important works from his period in Poland were the tomb of Casimir IV in Wawel Cathedral, the marble tomb of Zbigniew Olesnicki in Gniezno, and the altar of Saint Stanislaus.

From your quote

..... His earliest work (1477) is the celebrated altar of the Blessed Virgin in the Church of Our Lady at Cracow, which is made in three parts, as an altar with wings. In the centre is seen the almost life-size figure of the Mother of God as she sinks dying into the arms of an Apostle.
Another altar of his in this church has reliefs depicting six scenes in the life of St. Stanislaus. The fine qualities of this work, especially the animation of the portrayal and the effective composition, obtained for him in 1492 the commission of making the tomb of King Casimir IV in the Cathedral of Cracow....