August Nathanael Grischow

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August Nathanael Grischow ( Russian Августин Нафанаил Гришов ; born September 29, 1726 in Berlin , † June 4, 1760 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German mathematician and astronomer .

Life

August Nathanael Grischow was a son of the mathematician and meteorologist Augustin Grischow . He studied his father's science under his direction and then went on trips for further training in astronomy. From 1745 to 1749 he was director of the old Berlin observatory . In 1749 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in place of his then deceased father . In 1750 he became professor of optics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . As early as 1751 he gave up the position to become professor of astronomy and member of the Russian Academy of Sciencesto be in Saint Petersburg. There he mainly dealt with the theory of the parallax of celestial bodies, especially the moon . In 1749 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Publications

  • Methodus investigandi parallaxin lunae et planetarum .
  • Observationes circa longitudinem penduli simplices institutae . 1760

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZAH: Directors of the Astronomical Computing Institute (until 1874 of the Berlin observatory). Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 20, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Grischow, August Nathanael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гришов, Августин Нафанаил (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1760
Place of death St. Petersburg