Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s
In the late 1530s Bishop Dantiscus pressured Copernicus over housekeeper Anna Schilling. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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In the late 1530s Bishop Dantiscus pressured Copernicus over housekeeper Anna Schilling. The instrument is that episcopal policing of a household, not a recovered trial transcript. Nicolaus Copernicus's documented role is: Dantiscus ordered canons to dismiss concubines. Anna Schilling is the named housekeeper. Copernicus resisted then yielded in the later file. Medium on private terms.
Context
Dantiscus is the named bishop. Sharing that chapter discipline is required. The canonry remains the patronage row. The setting of Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s is the public file around 1538-01-01. Driver protection-of-minority-rights is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s are separate paths.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s on 1538-01-01. Episcopal policing of a woman's household place is a rights path of medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Nicolaus Copernicus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
Dantiscus ordered canons to dismiss concubines. Anna Schilling is the named housekeeper. Copernicus resisted then yielded in the later file. Medium on private terms.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactBishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1538 · verified
Episcopal policing of a woman's household place is a rights path of medium weight.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, education neighbourhoodStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, Bologna neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, Dantiscus neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, later years neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — Nicolaus Copernicus, Dantiscus neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Copernicus, later years neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Established: a sourced public record of Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s under 1538-01-01 for Nicolaus Copernicus. Established: a sourced public record of Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s under 1538-01-01.
Shared responsibility is part of Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s. Naming Nicolaus Copernicus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1538-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNicolaus Copernicus
- contributed toFactBishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Bishop Dantiscus pressures Copernicus over the housekeeper Anna Schilling in the late 1530s. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cp-anna-schilling
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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