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Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke

1835 - 1897

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Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (5 February 1835 in Groß-Heere, near Hannover – 3 December 1897 in Bonn) was a German astronomer. Winnecke worked at Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg from 1858 to 1865, but returned to Germany and served as professor of astronomy in Strasbourg from 1872 to 1881. He discovered or co-discovered a large number of comets, including the periodic comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke and the comet once known as "Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes" but later renamed to 27P/Crommelin after Andrew Crommelin, who computed its orbit. Winnecke also compiled a list of double stars, the Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars, in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke is the 249th most popular astronomer (up from 336th in 2019), the 2,615th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,813th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 249 out of 644. Before him are Josep Comas i Solà, Alfred Fowler, Benjamin Baillaud, Charles T. Kowal, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, and Margherita Hack. After him are James Ferguson, William Cranch Bond, Bertil Lindblad, Halton Arp, Wang Zhenyi, and Maximilian Hell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 43. Before him are Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Matsukata Masayoshi, Émile Combes, Paul Du Chaillu, Germanus V of Constantinople, and Matthías Jochumsson. After him are Christian Otto Mohr, Auguste Kerckhoffs, John Hughlings Jackson, Raffi, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and Adlai Stevenson I. Among people deceased in 1897, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 36. Before him are Henry George, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Fritz Müller, Henri Meilhac, Viktor Meyer, and Effie Gray. After him are Antonio Bazzini, Khurshidbanu Natavan, David Schwarz, Julius von Sachs, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, and Ion Ghica.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 2,616 out of 7,253. Before him are George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Karl Hein (1908), and Alexander Gode (1906). After him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), J. Cole (1985), Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Götz George (1938), and Johann von Staupitz (1465).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 42. Before him are Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Johannes Schöner (1477), Johannes Fabricius (1587), and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870). After him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Christine Kirch (1697), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Brian G. Marsden (1937), and Freimut Börngen (1930).

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