Otto von Littrow

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Otto von Littrow (born February 14, 1843 in Vienna ; † November 7, 1864 there ) was an Austrian physicist and astronomer .

He was the son of the astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811–1877), who, like his father Joseph Johann von Littrow, was director of the Vienna observatory. Littrow studied with Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg . Although he age of 21 shortly after his promotion to typhus died, he made his name with Spektralapparaten ( Littrow spectrometer ) and heliostats .

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  1. Life data according to Littrow, Jos. Joh. Of . In: Brockhaus Lexikon . Volume 61, 1888, pp. 228-229 ( online ).
  2. ^ F. Kerschbaum, I. Müller: Otto von Littrow and his spectrograph . In: Astronomical News . Volume 330, Issue 6, 2009, pp. 574-577, doi : 10.1002 / asna.200911219 (with picture).
  3. Otto von Littrow: About a heliostat according to August's principle . In: Repertory for Physical Technology. Volume 1, 1866, pp. 46–56 ( full text in the Google book search).