Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski

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Palm (also Palon) Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski (born September 7, 1789 in Magdeburg , † June 5, 1851 in Breslau ) was a German astronomer . He is the discoverer of the comet named after him .

Life

The Boguslawski family called themselves Boguslawski Pruss to differentiate themselves from other Polish noble families and came to Silesia in 1740 with Johannes Georg von Boguslawski . Boguslawski was born in 1789 as the son of Johann Heinrich and Karoline Rhode. The father was a captain in Prince Louis Ferdinand's regiment and died in 1802, which is why Prince Louis Ferdinand took care of the orphaned boy. Boguslawski attended the cathedral school in Magdeburg and here the inclination for astronomy awoke in him. After the handover of his hometown to the French, Boguslawski entered the Prussian military service in 1806. At the general war school in Berlin(1811–1812) he met the astronomer Johann Elert Bode , who was the head of the Berlin observatory. In Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 , he took part as an artillery officer. After he had left the Prussian army with the rank of captain, he lived as a manor owner in Groß-Rake near Breslau until 1829 and then moved to Breslau. From 1831 he worked as a conservator at the local observatory. In 1836 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Breslau and in 1840 director of the Breslau observatory .

On April 20, 1835, he discovered the first comet of the year, determined its orbit and received the first gold comet medal donated by the King of Denmark .

The Boguslawsky lunar crater is named after him.

His son Heinrich Georg von Boguslawski (1827-1884) became a hydrograph and editor of the first volume of the Handbuch der Ozeanographie , and also published astronomical writings.

Publications

From 1835 to 1850 Boguslawski published 19 volumes of a synchronistically ordered ephemeris of all celestial phenomena, which he called Uranus and which appeared in print expanded for the years 1846–50. Many of his observations about comets, about the disappearance and reappearance of the Saturn ring in 1833, about falling stars , about the total solar eclipse of 1851 are contained in Bode's yearbooks, Gruithuisen's Analects , the papers of the Silesian Society, in Jahn's conversations, in Uranus and in the astronomical news .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl Christian Bruhns:  Boguslawski, Palon Heinrich Ludwig Pruss von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 58.
  2. ^ Georg Wüst:  Boguslawski, Heinrich Georg von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 419 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, volume 1. KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25031-2 , p. 800.
personal data
SURNAME Boguslawski, Palm Heinrich Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boguslawski, Palon Heinrich Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1851
Place of death Wroclaw