Louis Arndt
Louis Vilmar Arndt (born November 25, 1861 in Erfurt , † February 24, 1940 in Neuchâtel NE ) was a Swiss astronomer of German descent.
Life
Louis Arndt was born in the district town of Erfurt in the Prussian province of Saxony . After attending the Realgymnasium in Erfurt, he studied astronomy and mathematics at the University of Berlin . After that he was an assistant at the Royal Observatory in Berlin from 1888 to 1892 . When Jakob Hilfiker (1851–1913) had to give up his post as assistant to the director of the Neuchâtel observatory for health reasons, Louis Arndt went to Switzerland in mid-1892 and took over this position alongside the astronomer Adolphe Hirsch .
In 1895 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin to Dr. phil. The title of his inaugural dissertation was Contribution to the calculation of the disturbing forces in the theory of secular disturbances .
From 1894 Louis Arndt was a teacher at the Ecole de mécanique et d'horlogerie de Neuchâtel and took over the office of president of this school from 1908 to 1912. In 1903 he became a Swiss citizen.
After Adolphe Hirsch died in 1901, Louis Arndt became director of the observatory in Neuchâtel and headed it until 1934. After that, he retired.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 34.
Web links
- ADOLPHE HIRSCH - first astronomer in Neuchâtel (PDF, accessed on February 6, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quarterly magazine of the Astronomical Society, Volume 28, 1893, p. 154.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arndt, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arndt, Louis Vilmar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1940 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel NE |