Karl Ludwig Harding
Karl Ludwig Harding (born September 29, 1765 in Lauenburg , † August 31, 1834 in Göttingen ) was a German astronomer .
Life
Harding was the son of Pastor Carl Ludwig Harding . He studied theology in Göttingen and taught in Lilienthal near Bremen as a private tutor to the son of the Oberamtmann Johann Hieronymus Schroeter , who had founded the Lilienthal observatory .
From 1796 Harding worked as an "inspector" at the observatory and in 1800 was appointed an observator . On September 1, 1804, it was from there that he discovered Juno , the third asteroid or planetoid of the solar system .
In 1805, Harding received a call as associate professor for astronomy at the University of Göttingen , before becoming a full professor in 1812. He made observations on comets , gas nebulas and variable stars . He discovered the variable stars R Virginis, R Aquarii , R Serpentis and S Serpentis. With the Atlas novus coelestis he published the first star atlas that did not contain any allegorical representations that would interfere with practical work.
For the Berlin Academic Star Maps , a project of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , he supplied the first sheet in 1826 and another in 1833.
In 1803 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1806 a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since November 1810 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
Karl Ludwig Harding died on August 31, 1834 in Göttingen. In recognition of his achievements, the asteroid (2003) Harding and the lunar crater Harding were named after him.
Publications
- Atlas novus coelestis . Goettingen 1822.
- About the variable stars known so far. In: Small astronomical ephemeris for 1831. 1830, pp. 109–121.
literature
- Karl Christian Bruhns : Harding: Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 593 f.
- Willy Jahn: Harding, Karl Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 666 f. ( Digitized version ).
- E. Zsoldos: Three Early Variable Star Catalogs. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy. Vol. 25 (1994), Issue 2, pp. 92-98.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Hamel : Bessel's project of the Berlin academic star maps. In: Die Sterne 65th Volume 1989, pp. 11–19, here p. 15.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 103.
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 23, 2019 (French).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Harding, Karl Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1765 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauenburg |
DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1834 |
Place of death | Goettingen |