At the latter time, Galileo had been showing sunspots to astronomers in Rome, and Christoph Scheiner had probably been observing the spots for two or three months using an improved helioscope of his own design.

* July 25 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit ( d. 1650 )

* June 18 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer ( b. 1573 or 1575 )

Such early discoveries are overlooked however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.

* Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner becomes the advisor to Archduke Maximilian, brother of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II in Vienna.

Unfortunately, the book remained obscure and was eclipsed ( so to speak ) by the independent discoveries of and publications about sunspots by Christoph Scheiner in January 1612 and Galileo Galilei in March 1612.

In 1630, Christoph Scheiner reported that the Sun had different rotational periods at the poles and at the equator, in good agreement with modern values.

* Franz Daxecker, The Physicist and Astronomer Christoph Scheiner: Biography, Letters, Works, Innsbruck 2004, Publikations of Innsbruck University 246, ISBN 3-901249-69-9

The first person who actually constructed a telescope of this form was the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner who gives a description of it in his Rosa Ursina ( 1630 ).

Jesuits ( such as Clavius, Christoph Grienberger, Christoph Scheiner, Odo van Maelcote ) were the most efficient agent for the diffusion of the Tychonic system.

* Christoph Scheiner

Such early discoveries are overlooked however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.

The German astronomer Christoph Scheiner believed he had seen small bodies passing in front of the Sun in 1611, but these were later shown to be sunspots.

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* Johann Baptist Cysat, Swiss Jesuit geometer and astronomer and one of Christoph Scheiner's pupils, becomes the first to study a comet through the telescope and gives the first description of the nucleus and coma of a comet.

Riccioli mentions Biancani, who accepted new astronomical ideas such as the existence of lunar mountains and the fluid nature of the heavens, and who collaborated with the Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner ( 1573 – 1650 ) on sunspot observations, with gratitude and admiration.

For instance, the Gregorian Calendar, promulgated in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, was developed by the Jesuit mathematician Christoph Clavius at the Collegio Romano from astronomical data.

The driving force behind the erection of a cross on the summit was the priest, Christoph Ott.

* 1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist ( d. 1799 )

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them.

* Christoph Keitel, German physicist

One of his doctoral students was the physicist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who became a colleague of his at Göttingen.

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* Christoph Cremer, German physicist, ( 1944 -)

In writing to Christoph Rothmann, a Copernican astronomer, Tycho used basic geometry to show that, assuming a small parallax that just escaped detection, the distance to the stars in the Copernican system would have to be 700 times greater than the distance from the sun to Saturn.

Some of the well known " Stiftlers " are the astronomer Johannes Kepler and his associate, statesman Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, the philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schelling, as well as the theologians David Friedrich Strauß, Johann Albrecht Bengel, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Ferdinand Christian Baur and Eberhard Nestle, and the philologist August Pauly.

He was born in Köstritz, the eldest son of Christoph Schütz and Euphrosyne Bieger.

He was born at Bad Tennstedt in present-day Thuringia, where his father, Johann Christoph Ernesti, was pastor, besides being superintendent of the electoral dioceses of Thuringia, Salz and Sangerhausen.

* November 2-Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer ( born 1738 )

* February 24-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist ( born 1742 )

* July 25-Johann Christoph Wolf, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer ( born 1683 )

* February 10-Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, theosopher ( born 1702 )

* Christoph Bechmann ( born 1971 )

** Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter ( born 1755 )

** Johann Christoph Kellner, organist and composer ( born 1736 )

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Christoph Blocher ( born 11 October 1940, Schaffhausen, Switzerland ) is a Swiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council heading the Federal Department of Justice and Police ( 2004 – 2007 ).

* May 16-Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing ( born 1667 )

* Christoph Cardinal Schönborn ( born 1945 ), Archbishop of Vienna, joined the Domican Order in Warburg in 1963

* June 11 – Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer ( born 1690 )

* February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer ( born 1709 )

* July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer ( born 1717 )

* March 10 – Christoph Graupner, composer ( born 1683 )

* Georg Christoph Pisanski ( born 1725 ), historian of Prussia

* January 4 – Christoph Schütz, music publisher ( born 1689 )

Satow was born to an ethnically German father ( Hans David Christoph Satow, born in Wismar, then under Swedish rule, naturalised British in 1846 ) and an English mother ( Margaret, née Mason ) in Clapton, North London.

* Christoph Probst ( born 6 November 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee: executed 22 February 1943 in Munich ) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose ( Weiße Rose ) resistance group.

Christoph H. Nuehlen ( born 25 March 1975 ) is a German artist and director of the FILMZ-Festival des deutschen Kinos.

Christoph Brandner ( born July 5, 1975 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria ) is an Austrian professional hockey winger.

Christoph Wolff ( born May 24, 1940 ) is a German-born musicologist, who is best known for his works on the music, life, and times of Johann Sebastian Bach.