Johann Sigismund von Mösting

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Johannes von Mösting

Johann (es) Sigismund von Mösting or Johan Sigismund Møsting (born November 2, 1759 on the island of Møn , † September 16, 1843 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish nobleman and statesman in the service of the royal family.

After extensive training, he studied law in Copenhagen, 1789 was bailiff of the Office Hadersleben , after 1803 Head of the king's German firm and became in 1813 Director of the Danish Reichsbank . He later headed the pension chamber and was Danish Finance Minister until 1831 , then Prime Minister . In 1838 he took over the management of the royal library .

Very interested in science, he founded the magazine Astronomische Nachrichten in 1823 with the Hamburg professor Heinrich Christian Schumacher . There is also an intensive correspondence with personalities of his time. a. with the Danish Crown Prince and later King Friedrich VI, who was open to the Enlightenment . and with Duke Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein , as well as proposals for the appointment of various university professors . Since 1810 he was an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences .

He was awarded the Dannebrog Order in 1803 and the Order of Elephants in 1815 .

In honor of his contribution to the exchange of astronomical information, the lunar crater Mösting was named after him, whose precisely circular secondary crater Mösting A became the main point of the selenographic coordinate system.

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SURNAME Mösting, Johann Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mösting, Johannes Sigismund von; Møsting, Johan Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish nobleman and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Møn island
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1843
Place of death Copenhagen