Adolf Marcuse

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Adolf Marcuse

Adolf Marcuse (born November 17, 1860 in Magdeburg , † October 18, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German astronomer and author of Jewish descent .

Career

Marcuse studied at the universities of Strasbourg and Berlin. As an assistant he took part in the German "Venus Expedition" (to observe the transit of Venus ) in the USA in 1882 . In 1884 he received his doctorate . From 1885 he was an assistant astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory near St. Petersburg. From 1886 to 1887 he was an astronomer at the National Observatory in Santiago de Chile and from 1888 to 1891 at the Royal Observatory in Berlin . For more than a year he carried out astronomical observations in Hawaii on behalf of the German government . He wrote a book about this time in Hawaii. From 1897 to 1907 he was a private lecturer in astronomy at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm University . In 1907 he became a full professor there. From 1911 he was also a teacher at the Technical Military Academy.

Adolf Marcuse was former master and honorary master of the Berlin Lodge Victoria and an honorary member of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg . He was a representative of so-called humanitarian freemasonry , which he was one of the first to speak about on the radio.

Publications (selection)

  • A. Marcuse: Handbook of Geographic Positioning for Geographers and Explorers. F. Vieweg and Son, 1905.
  • A. Marcuse: Astronomy in its meaning for practical life. Publisher BG Teubner, 1919.
  • A. Marcuse: Astronomical positioning in a balloon. G. Reimer Publishing House, 1909.
  • A. Marcuse: Astronomy. Quelle & Meyer Verlag, 1919.
  • A. Marcuse: The forces of nature and their technical utilization. Ullstein Berlin, 1924.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Marcuse: The Hawaiian Islands. Publisher R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin, 1894.
  2. ^ Catalog of the scientific collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin: Biography, Adolf Marcuse viewed on December 19, 2008
  3. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . 5th edition 2006, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , Lemma Marcuse, p. 545

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personal data
SURNAME Marcuse, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1930
Place of death Berlin