Ernest Mouchez
Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (born August 24, 1821 in Madrid , † June 29, 1892 in Wissous ) was a French astronomer, geodesist and admiral. He was director of the Paris Observatory from 1878 to 1892 .
Mouchez joined the French Navy in 1839 after visiting the École navale , became a lieutenant in 1848, a captain in 1867 and a rear admiral in 1878. He was there on worldwide expeditions with hydrographic and geodetic work on the coasts of South America, Oceania, the Indian Ocean, China, the Antilles and Algeria. In 1873 he became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes . In 1874 he headed the observation of the Venus transit on Saint Paul Island (French Southern and Antarctic Territories) and distinguished himself in doing so.
In 1887, at an international conference in Paris, he initiated a project for photographic sky mapping ( Carte du Ciel ). He subsequently organized several conferences to divide the work worldwide and to define the common method.
In 1875 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences and commander of the Legion of Honor .
A lunar crater ( Mouchez (moon crater) ) and a road at Parc Montsouris in Paris (where he initiated a teaching observatory for naval officers) are named after him.
Web links
- French biography
- Publications by E. Mouchez in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for E. Mouchez in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Antoine Demerliac: Sailors and Astronomy . In: Storm Dunlop, Michèle Gerbaldi (Ed.): Stargazers: The Contribution of Amateurs to Astronomy . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-540-50230-2 , p. 52 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-74020-6 ( Google Books ).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mouchez, Ernest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mouchez, Ernest Amédée Barthélemy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French astronomer and admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1892 |
| Place of death | Wissous |