Hans Battermann
Hans Battermann (born June 20, 1860 in Bückeburg , † June 15, 1922 in Blankenburg ) was a German astronomer .
Life
After graduating from high school Adolfinum Bückeburg studied Battermann from 1877 Astronomy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1881 for Dr. phil. After a year and a half at the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg, he was a computer at the Reich Commission for the observation of the passage of Venus from 1883 to 1888 .
After nine months at the Göttingen observatory , he returned for the second time to the Berlin observatory, where he became an observer in 1891 . He worked on the Berlin meridian circle and studied star occultations .
On April 1, 1904, the Albertus University appointed him director of the Königsberg observatory , whose international reputation was established by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel . After suffering a stroke in 1916/17, Battermann resigned from the honorable position on March 31, 1919 and moved with his wife and cousin Anna, nee. from Michalkowski, to Blankenburg.
Fonts (selection)
- Contributions to astronomical aberration theory. (= Dissertation University of Berlin). AW Schade's Buchdr., Berlin 1881, OCLC 250843283 .
- Contributions to the determination of the lunar movement and the solar parallax from observations of star occultations at 6 feet. Merz telescope of the Berlin observatory. (= Observation results of the Royal Observatory in Berlin. No. 5.) Berlin 1891, OCLC 65144334 .
- Mean place of 1640 stars for the equinox 1895.0. 1895, OCLC 65410436 .
literature
- Felix Schmeidler: Battermann, Hans Felix Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 629 ( digitized version ).
- H. Wegner: Battermann, Hans Felix Heinrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 41 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Battermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by H. Battermann in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ^ Dissertation: Contributions to the theory of astronomical aberrations.
- ↑ Obituary (Astronomical News) on adsabs.harvard.edu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Battermann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buckeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1922 |
| Place of death | Blankenburg (Harz) |