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Gustav Spörer

1822 - 1895

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Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 – 7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles. In this regard he is often mentioned together with Edward Maunder. Spörer was the first to note a prolonged period of low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1715. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Spörer is the 397th most popular astronomer (up from 426th in 2019), the 4,010th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,545th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gustav Spörer ranks 397 out of 644. Before her are Vera Gaze, Nathaniel Bliss, Louis Boyer, Chushiro Hayashi, James Gunn, and Paris Pişmiş. After her are Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Viktor Knorre, Alvan Graham Clark, Henry E. Holt, Dorothea Klumpke, and Ludwig Biermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Gustav Spörer ranks 57. Before her are Jakob Dubs, Luis Sáenz Peña, Victor Massé, Mathew Brady, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Frédéric Girard. After her are John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Bernhard Hammer, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Willem Roelofs, and Nikolay Ilminsky. Among people deceased in 1895, Gustav Spörer ranks 65. Before her are John Wesley Hardin, Charles Frédéric Girard, Meijer de Haan, Hayranidil Kadın, Thomas Francis Wade, and Jorge Isaacs. After her are Nikolay Girs, Ludwig Schläfli, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Friedrich Tietjen, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, and Karl Schenk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Spörer ranks 4,012 out of 7,253. Before her are Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Hans Felber (1889), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Arthur Rudolph (1906), and Karl Mai (1928). After her are Otto Siffling (1912), Agnes Block (1629), Christa Stubnick (1933), Siegfried Buback (1920), Frank Auerbach (1931), and Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Gustav Spörer ranks 59. Before her are Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Otto Lesser (1830), Paul Götz (1883), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), and Albrecht Unsöld (1905). After her are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), and Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923).

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