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Maria Margaretha Kirch

1670 - 1720

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Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer. She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Margaretha Kirch is the 116th most popular astronomer (up from 137th in 2019), the 1,109th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,568th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Margaretha Kirch ranks 116 out of 644. Before her are Stephen Gray, Robert Luther, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Annie Jump Cannon, James Van Allen, and Petrus Plancius. After her are Heinrich Schwabe, Yrjö Väisälä, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, George Biddell Airy, Frank Drake, and N. R. Pogson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1670, Maria Margaretha Kirch ranks 7. Before her are Augustus II the Strong, Giovanni Bononcini, Bernard Mandeville, Antonio Caldara, Turlough O'Carolan, and John Toland. After her are Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Rajaram I, Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1720, Maria Margaretha Kirch ranks 5. Before her are Calico Jack, Sukjong of Joseon, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, and Maria Barbara Bach. After her are Antoine Coysevox, Edward England, Peter Tordenskjold, Anne Dacier, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maria Margaretha Kirch ranks 1,109 out of 7,253. Before her are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Harald Schumacher (1954), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Veit Stoss (1450), and Moses Hess (1812). After her are Niko Kovač (1971), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), and Georg Böhm (1661).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Maria Margaretha Kirch ranks 22. Before her are Petrus Apianus (1495), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Arthur Auwers (1838), David Fabricius (1564), Johann Elert Bode (1747), and August Kopff (1882). After her are Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892).

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