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| | The Galileo Project |
 | | His father, Johannes Kemper (1610-1682), was a Lutheran minister, first pastor of the Nicolai church in Lemgo, and also Ephorus at the Gymnasium. |
 | | Schooling: Thorn; Cracow, M.A.; Koenigsberg; Leiden, M.D. He attended the Latin school in Lemgo (1665) and Hameln (1667), Gymnasia in Lueneberg (1668-1670) and Luebeck (1670), and the Athenaeum of Danzig (1672). |
 | | 1694, he returned home to Lemgo, where he settled on the family estate "Steinhof" in neighboring Lieme. |
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