Alice Archenhold (''née'' Markus; 27 August 1874 – 9 February 1943) was a German astronomer whose husband was fellow astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold. Alice Markus was born in

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, and married Friedrich Simon Archenhold in July 1897 and lived in

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. They went on to have five children together. Her sons, Günter, who became an astronomer, and Horst, both fled to England, but Alice was arrested and deported (along with her daughter Hilde) to

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, in Czechoslovakia, where she died on 9 February 1943. She is commemorated on her husband's grave at the

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, Berlin. In 2010 a street in

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was renamed after her as Alice Archenhold Weg.

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1874 births Place of birth missing 1943 deaths 20th-century German astronomers German women astronomers German people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto Women in Nazi Germany Jewish German scientists Jewish women scientists Jewish astronomers {{Germany-astronomer-stub

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