Basil von Engelhardt

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Basil von Engelhardt

Basil von Engelhardt (also St. Basil von Engelhardt , Vasily Pavlovich Engelhardt , Russian Василий Павлович Энгельгардт , English Vasily Pavlovich Engelhardt * 29. July 1828 in Kustowitschy , administrative unit Selsawet Haradsez , Belarus ; † 17th May 1915 in Dresden ) was a Russian astronomer .

Life

Basil von Engelhardt was the son of the Russian landowner and officer Pawel Wassiljewitsch Engelhardt and his wife Sofja Grigorjewna Engelhardt (1805-1875), daughter of the Kurland baron and general Grigori Grigorjewitsch Engelhardt (1759-1833).

Basil von Engelhardt settled in Dresden in 1875, had an observatory built from his own funds and operated it from 1877 to 1879 at Leubnitzer Strasse 2 and from 1879 to 1897 at Liebigstrasse 1 in Dresden as a well-equipped private observatory. The main instrument, an equatorial for the precise determination of asterisks , was made by Howard Grubb in Dublin and was the second largest in Germany at the time. The position micrometer with lighting equipment was manufactured by the Repsold brothers in Hamburg. The Dresden precision mechanic and optician Gustav Heyde (1846–1930) took over the technical support of the observatory .

The Austro-Hungarian astronomer Ladislaus Weinek watched the second Venus transit of the 19th century with him at the observatory on December 6, 1882 .

On August 29, 1886, Basil von Engelhard discovered the double star IC 1463 in the constellation Aquarius .

A November 3, 1886 by Johann Palisa the Observatory of Wien discovered asteroid of the main asteroid belt was by Basil von Engelhardt as (263) Dresda named after the German city of Dresden.

Basil von Engelhardt was a member of the Astronomical Society and became a member of the Natural Science Society ISIS Dresden on January 31, 1884 . On October 22nd, 1887 he was registered with the registration number. In 2637 accepted as a member of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina . In 1890 he became a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences . In 1889 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kazan .

After 1897, Basil von Engelhardt handed over the furnishings of the observatory to his friend, Dmitri Iwanowitsch Dubjago (1849–1918), who was then rector of the University of Kazan. Dubjago had an observatory built for the devices at the Kazan University, which was named Engelhardt Observatory after Basil von Engelhardt during his lifetime in 1903 .

Basil von Engelhardt was buried in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden after his death . On the initiative of the University of Kazan and in fulfillment of Basil von Engelhardt's testamentary wish, the remains of the astronomer were reburied from the Dresden Trinity Cemetery in September 2014 in the park next to the observatory of the Kazan University, where Engelhardt found his resting place next to Dubjago.

The Engel'gardt crater on the back of the moon is named after him.

Engel'gardt moon crater

Fonts

  • I. About the observatory of Mr. B. von Engelhardt in Dresden . In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden, 1885, pp. 1003–1006 ( digitized version )
  • Observations astronomiques, faites par B. d 'Engelhardt a son Observatoire a Dresden . 3 volumes, Baensch, Dresden, 1886, 1890 and 1895 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Astronomical Society: Portrait Gallery of the Astronomical Society. Tullberg, Stockholm 1904, p. 20 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 51. Issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1915, p. 50 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  2. ↑ Meeting reports and treatises of the Natural Science Society Isis in Dresden, 1884, Dresden 1885, p. 40 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 23rd issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1887, p. 167 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Basil von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Basil of; Engelhardt, Wassilij Pawlowitsch; Engelhardt, Vasily Pavlovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Kustowitschy
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1915
Place of death Dresden