Friedrich Bidschof

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Friedrich Andreas Markus Alexander Bidschof (born December 6, 1864 in Vienna ; † December 7, 1915 there ) was an Austrian astronomer .

Life

Friedrich Bidschof was the son of an official of the Danube Steamship Company. The astronomer Johann Palisa was his father-in-law. Friedrich Bidschof attended elementary school and the kk academic high school in Vienna and, after graduating from high school in 1882, studied philosophy, mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Vienna . In August 1887 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

Spiral galaxy IC 2951 discovered by Friedrich Bidschof in 1897

Friedrich Bidschof worked as a volunteer at the kk observatory in Vienna from July 1884 onwards . In 1890 he was appointed real assistant to the Imperial and Royal Vienna Observatory. In 1892 he received a training grant from the university and visited the observatories in Milan , Nice , Marseille , Lyon , Paris , Hamburg , Copenhagen , Berlin , Leipzig , Jena and Potsdam on his study trips . He trained in astrophotographic working methods in Paris and spectroscopic working methods in Potsdam. In 1897 Friedrich Bidschof discovered the spiral galaxy IC 2951 . On September 26, 1899, he became an adjunct at the kk observatory in Vienna, but one year later he switched to the better-paid position as an adjunct at the kk Maritime Observatory in Trieste , which he took up on November 25, 1900. Friedrich Bidschof died on December 7, 1915 in the apartment of his father-in-law Johann Palisa at the kk observatory in Vienna. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Friedrich Bidschof was a member of the Astronomical Society and was admitted to the Leopoldina on May 4, 1903 ( matriculation no. 3163 ) .

He had been married to his wife Helene , née Palisa, since 1901 . After their daughter Erna , his father-in-law Johann Palisa named the asteroid (406) Erna , discovered on August 22, 1895 by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois in Nice .

Trieste Astronomical Observatory

Fonts

  • Determination of the orbit of the planet 175 Andromache . In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class, 98,2a, 1889, pp. 485–498 ( digitized version )
  • Determining the orbit of the comet 1890 II . In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class, 100, 2a, 1891, pp. 515–532 ( digitized version )
  • Determination of the orbit of the planet M Thule . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class, 100, 2a, 1891, pp. 937–991 ( digitized version )
  • About the importance of photography for researching the structure and movements of the stars . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna, 37, 1897, pp. 151–225 ( digitized version )
  • The development of astronomy in America . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna, 38, 1898, pp. 483–574 ( digitized version )
  • The planet Mars. (1 folding plate.) . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna, 39, 1899, pp. 395–445 ( digitized version )
  • with Johann Palisa: Catalog of 1238 stars, based on the meridian circle observations contained in volumes I and II of the "Publications of the v. KuffnerŽschen observatory in Vienna (Ottakring)". (Edited and based on the Equinox 1890.0) . In: Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 67, 1899, pp. 785–848 ( digitized version )
  • About the size and number of stars . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna, 40, 1900, pp. 387–453 ( digitized version )
  • with Arthur Vital: Five-digit mathematical and astronomical tables. For use by mathematicians, astronomers, geographers and sailors . Deuticke, Vienna and Leipzig 1905 ( digitized )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grave place Friedrich Bidschof , Vienna, central cemetery, Group 43, Group enlargement A, row 5, no. 5.
  2. ^ Karl von Fritsch (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 39th issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1903, p. 66 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Bidschof, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bidschof, Friedrich Andreas Markus Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1915
Place of death Vienna