Annual astronomical report
Annual Astronomical Report ( AJB ) - [containing] the literature of the year ... - was founded in 1900 by Walter Wislicenus (1859–1905) and has been published annually since then. Only the literature from the period 1943–1946, when a large part of the international literature was not accessible in Germany, was summarized in two volumes published in 1948/51. The annual astronomical report was published in years 1 (1899) to 18 (1916) by Verlag Georg Reimer , from year 19 (1917) by Verlag Walter de Gruyter . The annual astronomical report was discontinued with the 68th year (literature 1968) in 1969.
The astronomical literature published in a given year was structured according to subject (in the first volume in 74, in the last in 145 sections) and then in the form of quotations (author, title, journal, volume, page number, often followed by a brief summary of the content) listed. Books and observatory publications were grouped under separate headings, but there were also many cross-references when a work dealt with different topics, as well as an author index at the end of the yearbook.
The summaries were initially written by the editor and his staff, later (sometimes edited) so-called 'abstracts' of the original work were adopted.
After the early death of the founder Walter Wislicenus , the publication was continued by members of the Astronomical Computing Institute ( Berlin-Dahlem , from 1945 Heidelberg ). The series was discontinued in 1969 and replaced by the English-language, twice-yearly publication Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts ( J. Springer, Berlin ), which was also compiled by the Astronomical Computing Institute in Heidelberg.
The Annual Astronomical Report was an annual astronomical bibliography listing literature published in the previous year (and overlooked literature from previous years).
The earlier astronomical bibliographies were cumulative, i.e. they listed all the astronomical writings known to the author from the beginning until the time of the publication of the bibliography itself ( Johann Friedrich Weidler , Bibliographia Astronomiae , Wittenberg 1755; Jérôme de Lalande , Bibliographie Astronomique , Paris 1803; Jean -Charles Houzeau (1820–1888) / Albert Lancaster (1849–1908), Bibliographie générale de l'Astronomie , Brussels 1880–1889).
editor
- 1899–1904 Walter Wislicenus
- 1905–1909 Adolf Berberich (1861–1920)
- 1910 Fritz Cohn
- 1911–1915 Paul Victor Neugebauer
- 1916–1921 Fritz Cohn
- 1922–1933 Paul Victor Neugebauer
- 1934–1958 Karl Heinemann (1898–1970)
- 1959–1968 Werner Lohmann (1911–1983)
(Note: co-editors are not included in this list)
Web links
- wwwadd.zah.uni-heidelberg.de
- www.jstor.org
- Annual astronomical report in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b EMA 48. In: Astronomische Gesellschaft eV April 7, 2000, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Duerbeck H. (2005): Walter F. Wislicenus and Modern Astronomical Bibliography . In: Heck A. (eds) The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 330. Springer, Dordrecht . 2005. doi : 10.1007 / 1-4020-3644-2_6 .
- ↑ Astronomical bibliography: Astronomical annual report. In: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) Heidelberg. June 29, 2000, accessed July 18, 2019 .