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Ernst Hartwig

1851 - 1923

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Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (14 January 1851 in Frankfurt – 3 May 1923 in Bamberg) was a German astronomer. On 20 August 1885, Hartwig discovered a new star, SN 1885A (S Andromedae), in the Andromeda Galaxy, which was the first supernova that was ever seen that was outside the Milky Way. He is also credited for the discovery and co-discovery of three parabolic and hyperbolic comets, namely C/1879 Q2, C/1880 S1 and C/1886 T1. In 1882, Hartwig observed the transit of Venus in Argentina. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Hartwig is the 453rd most popular astronomer (down from 391st in 2019), the 4,407th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,310th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ernst Hartwig ranks 453 out of 644. Before him are Paul W. Merrill, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Joseph Helffrich, Holger Thiele, Fernand Courty, and Hans-Emil Schuster. After him are Mary Proctor, William Robert Brooks, Grigory Shajn, Hisashi Kimura, Aristarkh Belopolsky, and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Ernst Hartwig ranks 78. Before him are Frans Schollaert, Herbert Lawford, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Maksim Kovalevsky, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Edward Robert Hughes. After him are Arnold Pick, Gérard Leman, Ekaterine Gabashvili, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, and Carl Locher. Among people deceased in 1923, Ernst Hartwig ranks 85. Before him are Jacoba van Heemskerck, Kadambini Ganguly, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Vatslav Vorovsky, Stefanos Dragoumis, and Itō Noe. After him are Ruy Barbosa, Alfhild Agrell, Tommaso Salvadori, Georg von Rosen, Gustav Lindau, and Wilhelm Killing.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Hartwig ranks 4,409 out of 7,253. Before him are Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg (1503), Fritz Noether (1884), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), and Camilla Horn (1903). After him are Theo Lingen (1903), Lian Ross (1962), Arthur Jonath (1909), Adolf Urban (1914), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), and Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Ernst Hartwig ranks 69. Before him are Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Joseph Helffrich (1890), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934). After him are Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Richard Schorr (1867), Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912).

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