Johann Heinrich Hoffmann
Johann Heinrich Hoffmann (* 1669 in Kerspleben / Thuringia ; † April 6, 1716 in Berlin ) was a German astronomer .
life and work
Hoffmann was a student of Erhard Weigel and was his assistant until his death in 1699 . He accompanied him on his trip from 1696 to 1697 to Denmark and Sweden. Weigel's predecessor to his chair at the University of Jena, Heinrich Hofmann, was Hoffmann's grandfather. From February 1701 Hoffmann was employed as an adjunct and later as an astronomer and observer at the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences in Berlin . At the Royal Berlin Observatory , he began working as an assistant to the first director Gottfried Kirch and, after his death in 1710, was the next director with the main task of calendar calculation until his own demise.
In addition to his work as director of the Berlin observatory, he also headed the private observatory of Bernhard Friedrich von Krosigk from 1705 and worked as a teacher in the cadet corps from 1710 to at least 1712 .
literature
- Hoffmann, Johann Heinrich . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 155.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans-Stephan Brather (Ed.): Leibnitz and his academy.
- ↑ Katharina Habermann: The Calendar Letters of Georg Albrecht Hamberger in the Context of the Calendar Reform of 1700. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 2012, p. 161, ISBN 978-3-86395-094-1 , ( online, PDF )
- ^ BBAW: Kirch family estate
- ^ ZAH: Directors of the Astronomical Computing Institute (until 1874 of the Berlin observatory)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Johann Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmann, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1669 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kerspleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1716 |
| Place of death | Berlin |