Leopold Ambronn

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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

Grave in the Göttingen city cemetery
  • 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.

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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