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thanked her for the selfless five-year care), Katharina Kepler inherited money. As a single widow, she was financially independent and could support herself and her children. After her youngest children moved out, Katharina lived alone in
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After her husband's death around 1590, Katharina Kepler inherited a house as well as fields and meadows. In 1598 she and her family moved into a small winegrower's house in
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in order to force her to confess, she remained steadfast: "She said that they could do whatever they wanted with her, and even if they pulled out every vein from her body, she would still have nothing to confess ... she would also want to die on that; God would reveal after her death that injustice
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Katharina Kepler was one of the best-documented cases in Germany, it received little attention in research. For a long time, Katharina Kepler was portrayed as an old, witch-like woman. The biography of historian
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Memorial stone dedicated to the mother of the astronomer Kepler, Catharina née
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