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Carl Gustav Witt

1866 - 1946

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Carl Gustav Witt (29 October 1866 – 3 January 1946) was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. He wrote a doctoral thesis under the direction of Julius Bauschinger. Witt discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first asteroid with a male name, and the first known near-Earth object. His first minor planet discovery was the main-belt asteroid 422 Berolina, that bears the Latin name of his adoptive city. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustav Witt is the 349th most popular astronomer (down from 302nd in 2019), the 3,601st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,528th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 349 out of 644. Before him are Fang Lizhi, Rudolph Minkowski, Hugo von Seeliger, Walter Lewin, Carl A. Wirtanen, and Gérard de Vaucouleurs. After him are Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, James Glaisher, Cyril Jackson, Heikki A. Alikoski, Marc William Buie, and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 87. Before him are Paul Lincke, Ignacy Daszyński, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Andrey Lyapchev, Paolo Troubetzkoy, and Tristan Bernard. After him are Jaan Poska, Janis Rozentāls, E. W. Hornung, Tilemachos Karakalos, Ernest Starling, and Kuroda Seiki. Among people deceased in 1946, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 128. Before him are Paul Lincke, Alexey Sudayev, Erwin Rösener, François de La Rocque, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, and Camillo Caccia Dominioni. After him are Albert Sechehaye, Ioannis Rallis, Dorothy Gibson, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Maximilian Steinberg, and Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 3,603 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811), Franz John (1872), Carl Humann (1839), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668), and Henriette Sontag (1806). After him are Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840), Paul Bader (1883), Kornelia Ender (1958), Else Krüger (1915), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), and Conrad Albrecht (1880).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 53. Before him are Brian G. Marsden (1937), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Franz Kaiser (1891), Julius Schiller (1580), and Heinrich Kreutz (1854). After him are Otto Lesser (1830), Paul Götz (1883), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), and Gustav Spörer (1822).

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