Carl Bremiker
Carl Bremiker (born February 23, 1804 in Hagen , Westphalia, † March 26, 1877 in Berlin ) was a German astronomer and geodesist .
He had a doctorate and was an assistant to Johann Franz Encke . Bremiker discovered the comet C / 1840 U1, which then also got its name.
Bremiker was co-author of the Vega-Bremiker logarithm table and - until his death - editor of the German nautical yearbook and a French "Annuaire nautique ...". Bremiker worked as a geometer for the Rhenish-Westphalian land surveying, later an employee at the Berlin Astronomical Yearbook and inspector of the planning chamber in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce, since 1868 section head at the Prussian geodetic institute.
For the star map series of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, he created a total of five sheets, more than any other astronomer.
literature
- Ernst Milkutat: Bremiker, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 582 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Bremiker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by Carl Bremiker in the Astrophysics Data System
- NN: Carl Bremiker. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 38 (1878), p. 151. (Obituary, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Hamel : Bessel's project of the Berlin academic star maps. In: The Stars. Volume 65 (1989), pp. 11-19, here: p. 15.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bremiker, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1877 |
| Place of death | Berlin |