Katharina Kepler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Katharina Kepler

Alleged German witch

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1547

Place of Birth: Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1622

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Katharina Kepler

  • Katharina Kepler (née: Guldenmann; 1546 – 13 April 1622) was an alleged German witch from Stuttgart, Württemberg, and the mother of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler.
  • Katharina Kepler was married to Heinrich Kepler and had one daughter and three sons; one of them was Johannes Kepler.
  • In 1615, a witch trial was initiated by Lutherus Einhorn who in his reign as vogt of the Protestant town of Leonberg (1613 - 1629) accused 15 women of sorcery and executed 8 of them.
  • He acted in accordance with the will of the government and the public, which had asked for an investigation of sorcery, and issued an arrest of Katharina Kepler in 1615.
  • Ursula Reinbold had accused Katharina Kepler of giving her a potion after an argument which had made her sick.
  • Johannes Kepler defended his mother himself, with the assistance of his university in Tübingen.
  • One of his student friends, Christopher Besoldus, assisted her juridically.
  • Her son took her away to Linz in December 1616.
  • When she returned to Leonberg in the summer of 1620, she was arrested and imprisoned for fourteen months.
  • She was told how she would be tortured, as a means of frightening her, but she refused to confess anything.
  • In October 1621, Kepler was able to effect her release.
  • Katharina Kepler died the following year.

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