Sceptrum Brandenburgicum (or Sceptrum Brandenburgium – Latin for scepter of Brandenburg) was a constellation created in 1688 by Gottfried Kirch, astronomer of the Prussian Royal Society of Sciences.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Gilbert Gottfried | Johann Gottfried Herder | Gottfried Keller | Gottfried von Einem | Gottfried Silbermann | Gottfried August Bürger | Johann Gottfried Schadow | Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen | Mike Gottfried | Johann Gottfried Gruber | Gottfried Semper | Christfried Kirch | Patrick Vinton Kirch | Martin Gottfried Weiss | Johannes Gottfried Hallier | Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff | Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus | Gottfried Reinhardt | Gottfried Kirch | Gottfried Helnwein | Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck | ''Robin'' Alexander Wolfgang Udo Eugen Wilhelm Gottfried of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | Paul Gottfried | Mark Gottfried | Leo Kirch | Kurt Gottfried | '''Karoline Bauer''' (in a white dress) with a group of artists, including Johann Gottfried Schadow |
At Berlin Observatory he began his duties as assistant of the first direktor Gottfried Kirch and after the latter's death in 1710, he succeeded him as director and continued the main exercise of up till his own death.