Friedrich Hayn
Friedrich Karl Traugott Hayn (born May 14, 1863 in Auerbach (Zwickau) , Saxony , † September 9, 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German astronomer.
Hayn was the son of a pastor and attended high school in Dresden. From 1883 to 1888 he studied astronomy at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . In Leipzig he became a member of the Afrania country team . In 1888 he received his doctorate in Göttingen on the determination of the orbit of the comet 1862 III. After that he was assistant, from 1891 observator and 1911 first observator at the Leipzig observatory. In 1920 he became an associate professor at the University of Leipzig (after he had turned down an appointment at the Königsberg observatory). Among other things, he measured the Pleiades star cluster, certain rotational elements of the moon (he wrote an article about this in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences ) and developed an electric clock.
The moon crater Hayn is named after him.
literature
- J. Bauschinger : Obituary, Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 233, 1928, p. 279 ( online )
- Josef Hopmann: Hayn, Friedrich Karl Traugott. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 154 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Hayn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by F. Hayn in the Astrophysics Data System
- Friedrich Hayn in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hayn, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hayn, Friedrich Karl Traugott (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerbach (Zwickau) , Kingdom of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1928 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |