Erich Przybyllok

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Erich Hugo Günther Przybyllok (born June 30, 1880 in Tarnowitz , Upper Silesia , † September 11, 1954 in Cologne ) was a German astronomer.

biography

Erich Przybyllok studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . With a doctorate in Julius Franz , he was in 1904 in Breslau Dr. phil. PhD. Then he was an assistant at the observatories in Breslau and Königsberg, the observatory in Heidelberg and the old observatory in Bonn . 1909/10 and 1914–1921 he worked at the Prussian Geodetic Institute in Potsdam . As an astronomer and geomagnetic, he took part in the Second German Antarctic Expedition in 1911/12 under Wilhelm Filchner . From 1921 he taught as full professor at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In addition, he headed the Königsberg observatory until it was destroyed by the air raids on Königsberg . After the Second World War he was a member of the teaching staff at the University of Cologne .

Przybyllok married Maria Agnes Schwab in Potsdam in 1920 . He died at the age of 74 in Cologne University Hospital .

literature

  • Paul Labitzke: Erich Przybyllok †. Die Sterne 31 (1955), p. 23 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About the usability of photographic lunar atlases for measurement purposes .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Filchner, Alfred Kling, Erich Przybyllok: To the sixth continent - the second German south polar expedition .
  3. ↑ Death certificate No. 2959 dated September 13, 1954, Cologne registry office I. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on June 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Przybyllok, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Przybyllok, Erich Hugo Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1954
Place of death Cologne