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Heinrich Kreutz

1854 - 1907

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Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz (September 8, 1854 – July 13, 1907) was a German astronomer, most notable for his studies of the orbits of several sungrazing comets, which revealed that they were all related objects, produced when a very large Sun-grazing comet fragmented several hundred years previously. The group is now known as the Kreutz Sungrazers, and has produced some of the brightest comets ever seen, including X/1106 C1 and Comet Ikeya–Seki. The source of the group may have been the Great Comet of 371 BC. Kreutz was born in Siegen in 1854, and obtained his PhD at the University of Bonn in 1880 on the orbit of comet C/1861 J1. In 1882 he moved to Kiel, working at the observatory and university there. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Kreutz is the 339th most popular astronomer (up from 476th in 2019), the 3,539th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,884th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 339 out of 644. Before him are Maria Clara Eimmart, Franz Kaiser, Beatrice Tinsley, James Challis, Julius Schiller, and Andronicus of Cyrrhus. After him are James L. Elliot, Klim Churyumov, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Fang Lizhi, Rudolph Minkowski, and Hugo von Seeliger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 71. Before him are Sergei Shchukin, John Kemp Starley, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Jules Gilliéron, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, and Sergei Korsakoff. After him are Cornelis Lely, Hermann von Stein, Petros Protopapadakis, Ruth Belville, Alexandru Macedonski, and Ludwig von Pastor. Among people deceased in 1907, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 62. Before him are Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Giuseppe Saracco, Raphael Kalinowski, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, and Alfred Newton. After him are Mkrtich Khrimian, Ignaz Brüll, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Jakob Hurt, Luis Sáenz Peña, and Maurice Loewy.

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Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 3,541 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1827), Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896), Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854), Julius Schiller (1580), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), and Werner Egk (1901). After him are Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Gertrude of Sulzbach (1114), Michael Ballhaus (1935), Karl von Einem (1853), and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 52. Before him are Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Franz Kaiser (1891), and Julius Schiller (1580). After him 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).

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