XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Freitag000002, 02.05.2025 um 00:11 schrieb Physfitfreak:   
   > On 4/26/25 12:48 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:   
   >> Einstein didn't speak Hebrew (as far as I know).   
   >>   
   >> He spoke German, French and Italian (and also a little English).   
   >>   
   >> (That's why I actually thought, that 'Einstein' was Swiss by birth and   
   >> that he wasn't a Jew and his name wasn't 'Einstein'.)   
   >   
   >   
   > It doesn't matter much what you "actually think". Yet you keep blabbering.   
   >   
   > You lost your credit when you claimed Germans at the time of Luther were   
   > not called "Germans". You even reasoned it like, "there was no country   
   > called Germany at the time therefore there were no Germans". Something   
   > as stupid as that.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Most Germans didn't speak English at that time, hence could eventually   
   have called themselves 'Deutsche' (if they had any intentions to do so),   
   because they spoke a language called 'Deutsch'.   
      
   ('German' or 'Germanes' are English or Latin names.)   
      
      
   You talk and think in terms of ethnicity, while I was talking about   
   political entities (states, cities or nations).   
      
   The country called 'Deutsches Reich' (='German Empire') was founded in   
   1871 and that was long after the times of Luther.   
      
   So Luther was not a 'German' because there didn't exist any political   
   entity named 'Germany' in his lifetime.   
      
   He spoke German, of course, even if German was not a single well defined   
   language at his time.   
      
   It was actually Luther himself, who created (in a way) the modern   
   German, simply by translating the bible from Latin into a new language,   
   which he in part invented.   
      
   So: what made Luther a German?   
      
   He was actually born in Eisleben. I forgot to which country that   
   belonged, but definitely not to 'Germany', 'Deutschland' or 'Deutsches   
   Reich'.   
      
   TH   
      
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