Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow
Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (born November 18, 1821 in Berlin , † August 20, 1891 in Heidelberg ) was a German astronomer .
His parents were the secret chancellery Johann Brünnow and his first wife Wilhelmine Weppler .
Brünnow first studied mathematics , physics and astronomy at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1843 with the thesis De attractione moleculari . He then worked for Johann Encke at the Berlin observatory and shortly afterwards (1847) was appointed director of the Bilk observatory (now a district of Düsseldorf ). In 1851 he was the first to return to the observatory in Berlin.
In 1854 Brünnow went to Ann Arbor (Michigan) in the USA , where he became director of the observatory to be newly built . In Ann Arbor and later in Albany , where he was employed as assistant director of the Dudley Observatory from 1859 to 1860 , he published an astronomical journal , the Astronomical Notices .
In 1863 Brünnow returned to Europe and in 1866 took over the management of the observatory there as royal astronomer for Ireland and professor of astronomy at Trinity College in Dublin .
In 1874 he retired into private life. Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow died on August 20, 1891 in Heidelberg. His tombstone is still in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery today.
In 1857 he married Rebecca Lloyd, née Tappan, daughter of the President of the University of Ann Arbor Henry Philip Tappan . Their only son was the orientalist Rudolf Ernst Brünnow .
In 1996 the asteroid (6807) Brünnow was named after him.
Works
- Mémoire sur la comète elliptique de De Vico . (Amsterdam 1849)
- Textbook of spherical astronomy . (Berlin 1851), on Google Books
- Textbook card design theory , ca.1870
literature
- Winfried Petri: Brünnow, Franz Friedrich Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 667 ( digitized version ).
- Nekrolog in: Astronomische Nachrichten , volume 128, pp. 205 ff. ( Online )
- Biography (eng.) In: The Michigan Technic , NS 8 (1895), p. 14 ( online )
Web links
- Publications by F. Brünnow in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for F. Brünnow in the Astrophysics Data System
- A. Krüger: Death notice. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 128 (1891), p. 205 (obituary to FFE Brünnow)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brünnow, Franz Friedrich Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1891 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |