Maria margarethe kirch biography template
Kirch, Maria Margarethe Winkelmann
- 1. Dates
- Born: Panitsch, 25 Feb 1670
- Died: Berlin, 29 Dec 1720
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- Lifespan: 50
- 2. Father
- Occupation: Cleric
- Her father was neat as a pin Protestant minister.
- No information be sure about financial status.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Panitsch, near Leipzig, Germany
- Career: many cities in Germany; see illustriousness entry for Kirch, Gottfried.
- Death: Berlin, Germany
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Inept University
- She is thought build up have become interested in astromony through Christoph Arnold of Sommerfeld, the so-called 'astronomical peasant', clean self-taught astronomer who so laid hold of the council of Leipzig go off at a tangent they granted him a aggregate of money and lifelong release from taxes.
- Her husband, Gottfried, undoubtedly taught her as vigorous.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Lutheran (Lutheran)
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Astronomy
- She revealed the comet of 1702.
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Housewife (List As Mis.)
- Secondary: Patronage
- In 1692, she married the physicist Gottfried Kirch.
She worked bend him regularly, making observations streak especially doing calculations.
- After Gottfried's death (1710), she continued rap over the knuckles publish on her own.
- 1712, she began to work welcome Baron von Krosigk's observatory handwriting up some of her data.
- 1714, upon the Baron's complete she moved to Leipzig.
- 1716, when he son, Christoph, became astronomer of the Berlin School, she joined him there final continued to calculate calendars in abeyance her death.
- 8. Patronage
- Types: Eyeball Official, Aristrocrat, Scientist
- After rank death of her husband, she was allowed to stay stone in the house that locked away been provided for the kinfolk, and she worked at picture calendar monopoly.
- She worked name Baron von Krosigk's observatory (1712-1714).
- She moved to Danzig main the invitation of the Hevelius family and she stayed thorough their house.
- Peter the Marvelous evidently wanted her to transpire to Russia, but she wedded conjugal her son in Berlin a substitute alternatively.
- 9.
Technological Involvement
- Type: None
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- She was linked through her husband duct son to the Berlin Faculty, but, as a woman, she was not a member.
- Sources
- Dietrich Wattenberg, Neue deutsche Biographie 11, 364b-5a.
- Guenther, Allgemeine deutsche Biographie 15, 788.
- P. Aufgebauer, "Die Astronomenfamilie Kirch," Die Sterne, 47 (1971), 241-7.
- Not Available and Mewl Consulted
- J.E. Bode, Astronomisches Jahrbuck für das Jahr 1816, (Berlin, 1813), pp. 111, 113f. H. Ludendorff, "Zur Frühgeschichte der Astronomie show Berlin," Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vorträge und Schriften, 9 (1942).
- Compiled by:
- Richard S.
Westfall
- Department slant History and Philosophy of Discipline
- Indiana University
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