Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
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Heinrich Schwabe (* 25. October 1789 in Dessau , † 11. April 1875 ) was a sustained-dessauischer , German astronomer and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Schwabe ".
Life
Schwabe left school in 1806 to become a pharmacist . From 1809 he studied pharmacy , chemistry , botany and physics in Berlin . In 1811 he returned to Dessau to take over his grandfather's pharmacy . After the pharmacy was sold in 1829, Schwabe devoted himself exclusively to the natural sciences. From 1830 he lived in the Schwabehaus .
In 1825 he began to be interested in astronomy . In 1843 he discovered the eleven-year sunspot periodicity, but at that time assumed a period of ten years. The Schwabe cycle was named after him. Alexander von Humboldt became aware of him through his publications and visited Schwabe in his observatory in 1833 .
In 1838 he published Flora Anhaltina , a comprehensive work on the flora of his home country Anhalt . His herbarium with plants from his trips abroad and from the Dessau parks is also remarkable .
In 1841 he married Ernestine Amalie Moldenhauer.
In 1857 he received the gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society . In 1868 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society . The moon crater Schwabe is named after him.
See also
Astronomical station "Samuel Heinrich Schwabe"
literature
- Siegmund Günther : Schwabe, Heinrich Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 159-161.
- Theodor Arendt : Samuel Heinrich Schwabe . In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder , Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 117-133
- M. Bean: Heinrich Samuel Schwabe, 1789–1875. Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 85 (1975), pp. 532-533 (English)
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Samuel Heinrich Schwabe at the IPNI
- Publications by SH Schwabe in the Astrophysics Data System (incorrectly listed there as M. Schwabe)
- Schwabe-Verein Dessau eV
Footnotes
- ↑ Winners of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: ras.org.uk (accessed February 16, 2011)
- ^ Entry on Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789 - 1875) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1875 |
| Place of death | Dessau |