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Christoph Scheiner
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christoph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Place of birth
- Markt Wald
- Place of death
- Nysa
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Scheiner christoph.gif
- Religious order
- Society of Jesus
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- Commons category
- Christoph Scheiner
- date of birth
- 1575-07-25
- date of death
- 1650-07-18
- name in native language
- Christoph Scheiner
- Commons Creator page
- Christoph Scheiner
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Basilica of St. Jacob and St. Agnes
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Encyclopedic overview
1725 portrait of Christoph Scheiner. Christoph Scheiner (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christoph Scheiner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.