Erich Schoenberg

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Erich Karl Wilhelm Schoenberg (born December 27, 1882 in Warsaw , † January 23, 1965 in Brannenburg , Bavaria ) was a German astronomer.

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His father was a high school teacher for Latin and Greek in Warsaw. After graduating from high school in 1900, he worked for some time at a shipyard in Riga and as a navigator, then began to study in Warsaw, Strasbourg and Dorpat (Tartu) in 1902 . In 1907 he graduated from Dorpat with a thesis on the orbit determination of binary star systems, and then was an assistant at the Dorpat observatory. In 1912 he received his doctorate in Kiel . From 1915 to 1918 he was director of the Dorpat observatory , which was abandoned during the Russian Civil War. After working as a geodesist for the Estonian army during this time, he went to Finland as a geodesist in 1920. In 1925 he completed his habilitation in Greifswald and in 1926 became director of the Breslau observatory . In 1946 he became director of the Munich University Observatory and Professor at the University of Munich . He led the reconstruction of the partially destroyed observatory. In 1954 he retired.

He dealt among other things with astrophysics photometry and wrote in 1932 an article about it in the Encyclopedia of the mathematical sciences .

Schoenberg had been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1947 .

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SURNAME Schoenberg, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenberg, Erich Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1965
Place of death Brannenburg , Bavaria