Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli ( Greek: Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Παπαδόπουλος, Nikólaos Komninós Papadópoulos; 6 January 1655 on Crete – 20 January 1740 in Padua) was an Italian lawyer and historian of Greek origin.
He was born to Zuanne (Giovanni) Papadopoli, a Venetian administrator at Candia, present day Heraklion. [1]
Papadopoli studied Canon Law and became a librarian at the University of Padua. In 1726 he published on the history of the university. [2]
That work contains gross inaccuracies (if not lies), for example regarding the life of Oliver Cromwell [3] and Nicolaus Copernicus. Papadopoli had falsely claimed in 1726 that he had seen an entry of Copernicus in records of a "Polish nation" at the university. In the century that had passed since, this claim had been widely published and "found a place in all subsequent biographies of Copernicus, but the decorative particulars added by the historian of the Pavian university have been shown to be wholly incorrect" [4] and utterly baseless [5] as shown over 150 years by Carlo Malagola and Leopold Prowe.
Papadopoli's work was continued since 1739 by Jacopo Facciolati.
Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli ( Greek: Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Παπαδόπουλος, Nikólaos Komninós Papadópoulos; 6 January 1655 on Crete – 20 January 1740 in Padua) was an Italian lawyer and historian of Greek origin.
He was born to Zuanne (Giovanni) Papadopoli, a Venetian administrator at Candia, present day Heraklion. [1]
Papadopoli studied Canon Law and became a librarian at the University of Padua. In 1726 he published on the history of the university. [2]
That work contains gross inaccuracies (if not lies), for example regarding the life of Oliver Cromwell [3] and Nicolaus Copernicus. Papadopoli had falsely claimed in 1726 that he had seen an entry of Copernicus in records of a "Polish nation" at the university. In the century that had passed since, this claim had been widely published and "found a place in all subsequent biographies of Copernicus, but the decorative particulars added by the historian of the Pavian university have been shown to be wholly incorrect" [4] and utterly baseless [5] as shown over 150 years by Carlo Malagola and Leopold Prowe.
Papadopoli's work was continued since 1739 by Jacopo Facciolati.