Bessel bust

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Bessel bust

The Bessel bust was a memorial to the Prussian astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel in Königsberg (Prussia) and was created by Johann Friedrich Reusch .

It was set up in the garden in front of the Königsberg observatory in 1882 . The bust was lost in World War II .

literature

  • Adolf Boetticher : The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Königsberg 1897, p. 246.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 47 "  N , 20 ° 29 ′ 40"  E