Émile Gautier
Étienne Alfred Émile Gautier (born April 18, 1822 in Geneva ; † February 24, 1891 ibid) was a Swiss astronomer and military.
He was a nephew of Jean Alfred Gautier . He studied astronomy in Geneva and Paris with François Arago and Urbain Le Verrier . Under the direction of Le Verrier, he was involved in the calculations for the discovery of the planet Uranus . In 1847 he received his doctorate in Geneva as a Dr.
On August 3, 1849 he married Elizabeth-Pauline-Victorine Sarasin (born October 14, 1829).
Émile Gautier embarked on a military career and was chief instructor at the Écoles Federales de Genie Suisse from 1855 to 1859 . In 1865 he became a Swiss Engineer Colonel (Colonel in the General Staff) and as such was commissioned to secure the border during the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871.
From 1863 to 1878 he was mayor of Cologny and from 1868 to 1870 he was also a member of the Geneva Grand Council .
In 1860 he and Le Verrier observed the total solar eclipse in Spain. In Italy he took part in work on astronomical spectroscopy . In 1883 he became director of the Geneva observatory , where, among other things, he developed and directed the extensive chronometer service and observed solar prominences , of which he published the first drawings in 1871. He improved the meteorological equipment of the Geneva observatory and the observation station of the Great Saint Bernard .
literature
- Marcel Golay: Gautier, Emile. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- R. Wolf: Death notice. In: Astronomische Nachrichten , Vol. 126 (1891), p. 383 (obituary for E. Gautier)
- NN: Emilio Gautier. Memorie della Societa Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani , Vol. 20, pp. 52–53 (obituary for E. Gautier, Italian)
Web links
- Literature by and about Émile Gautier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by E. Gautier in the Astrophysics Data System
- Medicinal and scientific necrology from 1891 on springerlink.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautier, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gautier, Étienne Alfred Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss astronomer and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1891 |
| Place of death | Geneva |