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Christine Kirch

1697 - 1782

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Christine Kirch (1696 in Guben, Holy Roman Empire – 6 May 1782), was a German astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christine Kirch is the 302nd most popular astronomer (up from 327th in 2019), the 3,164th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,738th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Christine Kirch ranks 302 out of 644. Before her are Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, Thomas Romney Robinson, David Gill, Maarten Schmidt, and Iosif Shklovsky. After her are Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Philippe van Lansberge, Luigi Carnera, Charles Dillon Perrine, Guillaume Le Gentil, and Agrippa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Christine Kirch ranks 14. Before her are Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Faustina Bordoni, Nicola Salvi, Mahmud Hotak, and Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After her are Joseph François Dupleix, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, and John Peter Zenger. Among people deceased in 1782, Christine Kirch ranks 25. Before her are Daniel Solander, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, and Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Richard Wilson, Sava Petrović, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sadeq Khan Zand, and José Cadalso.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christine Kirch ranks 3,166 out of 7,253. Before her are Jacob Hübner (1761), Dragan Holcer (1945), Oliver Riedel (1971), Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488), Georg Herwegh (1817), and Josias von Heeringen (1850). After her are Wolfgang Rihm (1952), John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1567), Salomon Müller (1804), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia (1103), and Heinrich Rubens (1865).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Christine Kirch ranks 45. Before her are Johannes Schöner (1477), Johannes Fabricius (1587), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), and Gottfried Kirch (1639). After her are Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Franz Kaiser (1891), and Julius Schiller (1580).

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