Talk:Joachim Gans
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There can be no "linguistically wrong" spelling of a name from the 16th century. At that time, the spelling of a name (and of any word) was not as strictly regulated as it is today. Both Shakespeare and Goethe, e.g., spelt their own names in several different ways. Moreover, "Joachim" is Hebrew and in the Hebrew alphabet, there are no vowels. Therefore no one can tell the correct vowels between the "J", the "CH" and the "M". By the way: "Jochim" is the danish form of this name (Holstein, where the ancestral seat of my family is situated, belonged to Denmark, when my great-grandfather got this name from his father). Regards, Jochim Schiller 15:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re-write
I'll be working on updating this page (style, writing, content), but others are invited to add to this. I stumbled across this page and found it interesting, so I'd like to find more sources that may help me improve it. Please let me know if there are sources out there that you may know about! BWH76 (talk) 14:25, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bishop Curteys
There is misinformation about his trial - it states that Curteys approached Gans in 1589, though this link makes it pretty clear that Curteys died 7 years before that (in 1582). I left it in the entry as I'm not sure which part is incorrect - was it Curteys that accused Gans or is the error in the date of when this happened? BWH76 (talk) 15:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
