Leopold Ambronn
Leopold Friedrich Anton Ambronn (born October 27, 1854 in Meiningen , † June 8, 1930 in Göttingen ) was a German astronomer .
As the son of a businessman, Leopold Ambronn attended the Meiningen secondary school from 1868 to 1876 and then studied astronomy at the universities of Leipzig , Vienna and Strasbourg . In 1887 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen with the thesis Contribution to the determination of the refraction constants . From 1880 to 1889 he was a research assistant at the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg and in 1882/83 he was deputy head of the German polar expedition to Cumberland Sound on Baffin Island .
Leopold Ambronn married Johanna Nollenberger, the daughter of the director of the Deutsche Hypothekenbank Meiningen , in 1885 . Ambronn was an observer at the Göttingen University Observatory from 1889 to 1920 . In 1892 he became a private lecturer and in 1902 a full professor at the University of Göttingen. Leopold Ambronn was a member of the Astronomical Society .
Leopold Ambronn is the older brother of the natural scientist Hermann Ambronn . His son was the geophysicist Richard Ambronn (1887–1954).
Works
- Handbook of astronomical instruments (2 volumes, 1899).
- Provisions and administration diary of the Kingua station of the German Polar Commission at Cumberland Sound from August 8, 1882 to September 15, 1883.
literature
- Astronomical Society: Portrait Gallery of the Astronomical Society. Tullberg, Stockholm 1904, p. 8 digitized
- Obituary by Arnold Schwassmann . Astronomical News 239 (1930) 93. ( adsabs.harvard.edu )
- Ernst Zinner: Ambronn, Leopold Friedrich Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Stadtlexikon Meiningen , Bielsteinverlag Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2
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SURNAME | Ambronn, Leopold |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ambronn, Leopold Friedrich Anton (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Meiningen , Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen |
DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1930 |
Place of death | Göttingen , Hanover Province , Free State of Prussia , Weimar Republic |