Between 1700 and 1703 he had a position as assistant to Georg Christoph Eimmart at his observatory in Nürnberg.
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From 1720 he was Professor for Mathematics at the Gymnasium in Hildburghausen, until it was closed in 1727.
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In 1740 after the death of Christfried Kirch he was named as his successor as Director of Berlin Observatory - a post which he held for the rest of his life.
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