Karl Boda

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Karl Boda (born May 21, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 25, 1942 in Heidelberg ) was a German astronomer .

Boda was born on May 21, 1889 as the son of the carpenter Johann Anton Boda and his wife Margarete Boda. After training in village and then middle school, he attended the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt for two years , where he studied architecture. However, he decided to break off his studies and made up his school leaving certificate in 1909, which allowed him to pursue his passion for astronomy, mathematics and physics.

His studies of astronomy in Frankfurt, Tübingen and Munich were interrupted by military service. In 1919 he completed his studies in Frankfurt with a doctorate; The subject of the dissertation was " Investigations into the general Jupiter disturbances of the planet 170 Maria ".

From 1913 Boda worked at the Planetary Institute in Frankfurt. From 1914 to 1921 he was an assistant at the same institute, but had to interrupt his work during the First World War. From 1921 he worked at the Taunus Observatory , but in 1922 he switched back to the observatory of the Physikalischer Verein whose director was Professor Martin Brendel (1862–1939).

After giving lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for a long time , he became a lecturer in astronomy in 1935. Just one year later he became deputy head of the planetary institute and the observatory. Since the planetary institute was relocated to the Baden State Observatory in 1939, Boda also moved to Heidelberg .

Boda worked mainly in the field of celestial mechanics. Among other things, he developed new methods for calculating disturbances and orbital improvements of celestial bodies and also applied them. This enabled him to calculate the orbits of numerous minor planets more precisely.

In addition to this work, he also researched the escape movement of extragalactic nebulae and meteorology . He also observed a wide variety of astronomical objects in the observatory of the Physikalischer Verein himself and offered public observations for school classes, groups and individuals at the observatory.

Boda was married and had two daughters and a son.

The asteroid (1487) Boda was named after Boda.

His grave slab has been preserved in the New Bockenheim Cemetery in Frankfurt.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the calculation of the right-angled heliocentric coordinates . In: Astronomical News. 185. Volume No. 4429 (1910), Col. 207 / 208-209 / 210
  • Approximate Jupiter perturbations for 108 planets of the Hestia group . In: Astronomical News. 212th Volume, No. 5078 (1920), Col. 219 / 220-227 / 228
  • Investigations into the general Jupiter disturbances of the planet 170 Maria . In: Astronomical News. 212th Volume, No. 5080/81 (1921), Col. 305 / 306-335 / 336
  • Tables for the calculation of general Jupiter disturbances of the planets whose mean movement lies between 844 ″ and 997 ″ . In: Astronomical News. 233rd Volume, No. 5584 (1928), Col. 265/266267/268
  • Development of the perturbation function and its derivatives in series which converge for any eccentricities and inclinations . In: Astronomical News. Volume 243, No. 5810/11 (1931), Col. 17 / 18-41 / 42
  • Faults in 287 small planets for the period 1932–1940 . In: Astronomical News. 249th Volume, No. 5954/55 (1933), Col. 17 / 18-49 / 50

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Boda  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vogt, H .: Karl Boda . In: Astronomical News . tape 272 , no. 5 , 1942, pp. 244 .
  2. ↑ Gerd Sandstede : Historical. In: Internet presence of the Physikalischer Verein. Physikalischer Verein , accessed June 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Fricke, Heinz: The observatory . In: 150 years of the Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt a. M. 1974, p. 206 .
  4. ^ Grave slab of Karl Boda, New Boceneim Cemetery in Frankfurt
personal data
SURNAME Boda, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1942
Place of death Heidelberg