Ernst Hartwig

Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig

Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (born January 14, 1851 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 3, 1923 in Bamberg ) was a German astronomer .

Life

He discovered a new star in the Andromeda Galaxy on August 20, 1885 . This became known as Supernova S Andromedae . He observed the Venus transit of 1882 in Argentina . In 1874 he became an assistant at the Observatoire de Strasbourg . While observing comet 6P / d'Arrest in 1883, he discovered five NGC objects. In 1884 he became an astronomer at the Dorpat observatory and in 1886 director of the Bamberg observatory .

In 1902, he was awarded the Prix Valz by the Académie des Sciences for his heliometric observations and his work on variable stars . Craters on the moon ( Hartwig ) and Mars were named after Ernst Hartwig.

Cuno Hoffmeister : Obituary notice: Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig. In: Astronomical News. Volume 219, 1923, p. 185 ( bibcode : 1923AN .... 219..185H ).
Wolfgang Strohmeier: Hartwig, Karl Ernst Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 14 f. ( Digitized version ).

^ Hockey Thomas: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing, accessed July 8, 2015 .
↑ Astronomical Communications - Ephemeris of Variable Stars for 1899 . In: Quarterly magazine of the Astronomical Society . tape 34 . Leipzig, 1895, p. 346-350 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
↑ Le Moniteur scientifique du Doctor Quesneville . tape 59 , no. 1 . Paris 1903, p. 139 (French).
^ Journal of the British Astronomical Association . tape 3 . British Astronomical Association, London 1903, p. 143-144 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Hartwig, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartwig, Carl Ernst Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1923
Place of death	Bamberg