CUNITZ, MARIA (c. 1610-1664), Silesian astronomer, was the eldest daughter of Dr. Heinrich Cunitz of Schweinitz, and the wife (1630) of Dr. Elias von Loven, of Pitschen in Silesia— both of them men of learning and distinction. From her univer sal accomplishments she was called the "Silesian Pallas," and the publication of her work, Urania propitiat (Gels, 165o), a simplifi cation of the Rudolphine tables, gained her a European reputa tion. It was composed at the village of Lugnitz, close by the convent of Olobok (Posen), where, with her husband, she had taken refuge at the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, and was dedicated to the emperor Frederick III. She died at Pitschen on Aug. 24, 1664.