Carl Theodor Bernhard Niebour

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Carl Theodor Bernhard Niebour (born December 27, 1825 in Hanover , † March 3, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German navigation teacher and director of the Hamburg navigation school .

Niebour taught as a navigation teacher in Hamburg from 1846 to 1862. At the same time he worked as an assistant at the Hamburg observatory under Carl Rümker and contributed observations and orbital calculations to articles in the Astronomical News (from Volume 24, 1846; last Volume 77, 1871). From 1863 to 1900 he was head of the navigation school (Hamburg) . His successor was Friedrich Bolte .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Astronomical News . Volume 24, Altona 1846, p. 393 and Volume 31, Altona 1951, p. 394.
  2. Niebour, Theodor Carl Bernhard. In: Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Volume 6, Part 3, 1938.