Hugo von Rothkirch-Panthen

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Baron Hugo Bernhard Sigismund von Rothkirch-Panthen (born April 22, 1812 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † March 16, 1868 ibid) was a German astronomer .

Life

Hugo von Rothkirch-Panthen came from the Silesian noble family Rothkirch and was the owner of the majorat Schottgau southwest of Breslau .

He attended the Liegnitz Knight Academy and the Elisabet Gymnasium in Breslau and then studied at the University of Breslau . Although he had enrolled in law, he mainly dealt with the Studia humaniora and mathematics. In addition to his mathematical skills, he had a special ability for languages ​​and learned English, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish as well as Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He was also interested in astronomy, worked on astronomical calculations as a private scholar for the Breslau observatory and supported Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski with the publication of Uranus. After his death in 1851 he continued to work as a computer for the Breslau observatory, now under the direction of Johann Gottfried Galle .

In 1852 he took part in the Berlin Astronomical Yearbook with calculations .

In 1842 he became a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture .

On November 1, 1854, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund von Rothkirch was registered under matriculation no. In 1751 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina with the academic surname Boguslawsky .

literature

  • Theodor Oelsner : Nekrolog Hugo Bernhard Sigismund Freiherr von Rothkirch-Panthen . In: Forty-sixth annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture, Breslau 1869, pp. 191–192 digitized version
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 186 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 280 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Rothkirch-Panthen, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothkirch-Panthen, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1868
Place of death Wroclaw , Province of Silesia