Franz Friedrich Ernst Brunnoff ( German: Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow ; 1821-1891) - German astronomer , Ph.D.
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Biography
He studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Berlin , where he received his doctoral degree in 1843 for his work De attractione moleculari . Pupil of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove .
Then he worked at the Berlin Observatory under the direction of Johann Encke .
In 1847-1851 led the Dusseldorf Observatory .
In 1851 he returned as a chief scientist at the Berlin Observatory.
In 1854, Brunnov was invited to the USA in Ann Arbor ( Michigan ), where he became director of a newly built observatory and taught at the University of Michigan .
After working in Ann Arbor, he was deputy director in Albany , in 1859–1860 - Dudley Observatory in Schenectady , New York , USA .
Put articles in Astronomical Notices magazine .
In 1863 he returned to Europe and from 1866 to 1874 worked as a royal astronomer in Ireland , succeeding Sir William Rowan Hamilton , and a professor of astronomy at Trinity College in Dublin , and supervised the local observatory.
In 1874 he retired. He died on August 20, 1891 in Heidelberg .
Selected Works
- "The textbook of spherical astronomy." St. Petersburg: type. V. Bezobrazov and Comp., 1872–1873.
- Mémoire sur la comète elliptique de De Vico (1849)
- Lehrbuch der spharischen Astronomie, 1851. [1]
- "Lehrbuch Kartenentwurfslehre", approx. 1870
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116751835 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Links
- Brynnov // Brockhaus and Efron Small Encyclopedic Dictionary : 4 tons. - SPb. , 1907-1909.
- Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (English)