Albert von Brunn

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Albert von Brunn (born September 19, 1880 in Koethen , † December 28, 1942 in Potsdam ) was a German astronomer.

life and work

Brunn studied between 1899 and 1904 at the universities of Leipzig , Würzburg and Göttingen . In 1904 he received his doctorate in Göttingen ( The secular acceleration of the moon ). He then went to Heidelberg University (with Karl Wilhelm Valentiner ) and completed his habilitation in 1909 at the Technical University of Danzig , where he became director of the (astronomical-meteorological-nautical) observatory in 1920 (after serving in the First World War as a meteorologist in the army). In 1922 he became an honorary professor, but resigned as director of the observatory in 1926. From 1926 to 1928 he was employed at the observatory in Breslau, from 1929 to 1940 at the Einstein Institute in Potsdam.

Brunn dealt with astronomical time measurement, theory of refraction and celestial mechanics. In 1920 his remarks on the three-body problem appeared in Danzig . He was also involved in an expedition to review the general theory of relativity by observing the deflection of light from stars near the sun during a solar eclipse by Erwin Freundlich in 1929, although he was skeptical of the theory.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalogus Professorum . In: Articles and documents on the history of the Gdansk University of Technology 1904-1945 . Hannover 1979, p. 127. Year of death here differently 1940 .
  2. ↑ During the expedition, discrepancies with Albert Einstein's predictions were found.

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personal data
SURNAME Brunn, Albert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Koethen
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1942
Place of death Potsdam