Ernst Zinner

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Ernst Zinner (born February 2, 1886 in Goldberg in Silesia , † August 30, 1970 in Planegg in Bavaria) was a German astronomer and astronomy historian. He was the rediscoverer of the comet Giacobini-Zinner .

Life

After studying in Munich and Jena and doing research in Lund and Heidelberg , Zinner worked in Bamberg from 1910 to 1919 . From 1920 he was a private lecturer and from 1924 associate professor at the University of Munich . From 1926 to 1953 he was director of the Karl Remeis observatory in Bamberg.

In addition to his actual astronomical work, especially on variable stars , Zinner wrote important works on the history of astronomy .

On October 23, 1913, Zinner rediscovered the same comet that Michel Giacobini had discovered in France in 1900 . This happened two rounds later. Since then the comet is called Giacobini-Zinner (21P).

The Zinner lunar crater with a diameter of four kilometers is named after him. In 1939 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1993 the asteroid (4615) Zinner was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Directory of the astronomical manuscripts of the German cultural area . Beck, Munich 1925.
  • Brightness index of 2373 stars up to size 5.50 . Buchner, Bamberg 1926.
  • The history of astronomy from the very beginning to the present . Springer, Berlin 1931.
  • Johannes Kepler , Lübeck: Coleman 1934
  • The life and work of Nikolaus Koppernick , treatises and reports, Deutsches Museum, Volume 9, Issue 6, Berlin, VDI Verlag 1937
  • Life and work of Johannes Müller , Munich 1938, reprint Osnabrück 1968 (biography of Regiomontanus ). English translation: Regiomontanus , North Holland 1990
  • The oldest wheel clocks and modern sundials. Research on the Origin of Modern Science. (= Report of the Natural Research Society. 28). Bamberg 1939.
  • History and bibliography of astronomical literature in Germany during the Renaissance . 2nd edition Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1964, ISBN 3-7772-6407-5 (first edition Leipzig 1941).
  • Origin and expansion of Copernican teaching , Beck, 2nd edition 1988 (first 1943)
  • Astronomy. History of their problems ( Orbis academicus / 2; Vol. 1). Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / B. 1984, ISBN 3-495-44103-4 (reprint of the Munich 1951 edition).
  • Astronomy , Munich: Alber 1951.
  • Peter Henlein and the invention of the pocket watch. In: Yearbook of the German Society for Chronometry. Volume 4, 1953, pp. 8-12.
  • On the interpretation of the astrological lead capsule in Freiburg . In: Research and Progress, 30. Jhrg. Heft 3, Berlin 1956, pp. 65–67.
  • German and Dutch astronomical instruments from the 11th to 18th centuries Century. Beck Munich 1956 .; 2nd edition ibid 1967, further edition 1979.
  • Old sundials on European buildings , Wiesbaden: Steiner 1964.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Zinner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 22502
  3. ↑ From this, the studies on the "History of Astronomy" were published as a special edition.
personal data
SURNAME Zinner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer and astronomy historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldberg in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1970
Place of death Planegg