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Maria Margarethe Kirch

Also in 1716, Maria's son Christfried became the director of Berlin Observatory of the Royal Academy of Sciences following Hoffmann's death and Maria and her daughter, Christine, became his assistants.

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As Maria, had an interest in astronomy from an early age, she took the opportunity of studying with Christopher Arnold, a self-taught astronomer who worked as a farmer in Sommerfeld, near Leipzig.

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