Eduard Luther
Eduard Luther (born February 24, 1816 in Hamburg , † October 17, 1887 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German astronomer.
Life
Luther studied at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the Albertus University in Königsberg . In Königsberg he became a member of the Pappenhemia . His teachers were the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi . After his habilitation , he took over the management of the Königsberg observatory with the observator Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann in 1856 .
From 1859 he was the sole director of the observatory and initially an associate , later a full professor . For the academic year 1868/69 he was elected Rector of the Albertina.
He derived the declinations of the fundamental stars from observations of the meridian circles left by Bessel . He also wrote treatises on 5th and 6th degree algebraically solvable equations .
Web links
- Publications by E. Luther in the Astrophysics Data System
- NN: Obituary: Luther, Eduard. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 48 (1888), p. 169 (obituary, English)
- J. Franz : Death notice. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 118 (1887), p. 31. (Obituary for E. Luther)
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Koch : The old Pappenheimer zu Königsberg . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 32 (1916), pp. 655-657
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Luther, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer ; University professor and rector in Königsberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1887 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |