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Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt to Matthäus Merian and Johanna Catharina Sibylla
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her father died when she was only three
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Merian raised silk worms when she was 13
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married Johann Andreas Graff when 18
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Maria and Johann's first daughter Johanna Helena was born.
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published her 1st book in 1675
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her second daughter Dorothea Maria was born
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her stepfather, her mother's husband died.
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mom died when maria was 43
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traveled through Suriname then a dutch colony exclusively for exotic species, one of the only women to travel outside her country for work.
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She published Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (“The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname”).
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Maria Sibylla Merian died
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some 83 years after she died is when the science of entomology really became somewhat popular
