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Gottfried Kirch

1639 - 1710

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Gottfried Kirch (German: [ˈkɪʁç]; also Kirche [ˈkɪʁçə], Kirkius; 18 December 1639 – 25 July 1710) was a German astronomer and the first "Astronomer Royal" in Berlin and, as such, director of the nascent Berlin Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Kirch has received more than 53,058 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gottfried Kirch is the 440th most popular astronomer (down from 386th in 2019), the 4,596th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,002nd in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gottfried Kirch ranks 440 out of 644. Before him are George Van Biesbroeck, George Herbig, William Frederick Denning, Dilhan Eryurt, Odette Bancilhon, and Jill Tarter. After him are Warren De la Rue, Brian Schmidt, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Henry L. Giclas, and Willem Jacob Luyten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Gottfried Kirch ranks 10. Before him are Marie Mancini, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Laura Martinozzi, and Caspar Netscher. After him is Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1710, Gottfried Kirch ranks 10. Before him are Hennig Brand, Bernardo Pasquini, Louis, Prince of Condé, Gaspar Sanz, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Kirch ranks 4,596 out of 7,253. Before him are Elias Holl (1573), Karl Dall (1941), Franz Josef Jung (1949), Juliane Köhler (1965), Eike Immel (1960), and Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909). After him are Elfriede Kaun (1914), Erich Kähler (1906), Klaus Groth (1819), Lothar Metz (1939), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), and Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Gottfried Kirch ranks 67. Before him are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Cuno Hoffmeister (1892). After him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912).

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