Karl Schiller (astronomer)

Karl Friedrich Ernst Gustav Schiller (born March 27, 1882 in Cologne , † April 26, 1979 in Buchschlag ) was a German astronomer .

Life

Born in Cologne, Karl Schiller, son of Postmaster Paul Schiller and Katharina Schiller, born Hauser, devoted himself to the High School to the study of astronomy, which he with the promotion of Dr. phil. nat. completed. Karl Schiller was subsequently employed at various observatories , including from 1907 to 1913 in the director function of the Bothkamp observatory . Schiller subsequently held positions as an assistant, and later as an observator at the Leipzig observatory . In 1946 he switched to a position as a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , and in 1956 he was appointed honorary professor for astronomy. In addition, from 1947 to 1960 he was head of the Astronomical Institute. Schiller was elected a member of the Astronomical Society in 1906 . The main research focus of the author of numerous technical articles was in particular the location of stars.

The passionate photographer Karl Schiller married Else, née Thormeyer, in 1921. He died in Buchschlag in April 1979 at the old age of 97.

Publications

• About a perfecting of the "prism method" for position angle measurements of double stars. in: Astronomische Nachrichten , Volume 192. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1912, pp. 1–8.
• Observations of double stars between 70◦ and 90◦ north declination on the 29cm refractor of the Bothkamp observatory. in: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 195. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1912, pp. 465–484.
• Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars. Joh. Ambr. Barth, Leipzig, 1923
• Mathematics, astronomy, geodesy, geophysics, nautics, meteorology: [Jg. 1] ; The literature d. J. 1924. Verlag [business office] d. Börsenverein d. German bookseller, Leipzig, 1925
• The observations of the Polarissima BD + 89 ° 1 on the Strasbourg meridian circle. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1937
• together with Hans Naumann: Zone observations of the reference stars for the repetition of the AG catalog at the Leipzig University Observatory. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1938

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16, . Arani, Berlin, 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1127.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3. 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , pp. 3373, 3374.
• Obituary - Professor Dr. Karl Schiller (1882-1979). in: Annual report of the Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt am Main, Volume 154. Frankfurt am Main, 1981, pp. 14–15.
• André Heck: The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory. Springer, Dordrecht, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4020-3644-6 , pp. 76, 77.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Schiller in the catalog of the German National Library