Burial of Elisabetha Hevelius in Danzig, recorded the day after her death.
23 December 1693 is recorded in a biographical encyclopedia as the burial date of Elisabetha Hevelius in Danzig. Although burial is not the same as death, the date is historically useful because it confirms the immediate aftermath of her passing and the continuity of her family and civic ties to the city where she lived and worked.
The burial also symbolically closes the record of a woman whose life was deeply rooted in Danzig’s mercantile and scholarly culture. She was buried near the end of a year that had already marked the final loss of the Hevelius household’s principal scientific actor. For historians, the burial date is a small but important archival detail: it demonstrates how even women’s final rites can survive in scattered early modern sources when their everyday scientific labor may not. Taken together with her death date, it strengthens the documentary picture of Elisabetha as a remembered figure in the city’s history and in the history of astronomy.