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Heinrich Schwabe

1789 - 1875

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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity. He also took an interest in botany and was a founding member of a natural history society in Dessau. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Schwabe is the 117th most popular astronomer, the 1,112th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,359th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Astronomer.

Heinrich Schwabe was a German physician and botanist who is most famous for his discovery of the periodicity of sunspots.

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Among astronomers, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 117 out of 644. Before him are Robert Luther, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Annie Jump Cannon, James Van Allen, Petrus Plancius, and Maria Margaretha Kirch. After him are Yrjö Väisälä, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, George Biddell Airy, Frank Drake, N. R. Pogson, and Ernst Öpik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 12. Before him are William John Swainson, María Isabella of Spain, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, and Johann Friedrich Overbeck. After him are Maria Szymanowska, Abbas Mirza, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, and Marcellin Champagnat. Among people deceased in 1875, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Charles Wheatstone, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Moses Hess. After him are Amalia of Oldenburg, Pierre Larousse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, and Jacques Paul Migne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 1,112 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Heinkel (1888), Veit Stoss (1450), Moses Hess (1812), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Niko Kovač (1971), and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709). After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Georg Böhm (1661), Günther Rall (1918), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), and Fritz Haarmann (1879).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 23. Before him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Arthur Auwers (1838), David Fabricius (1564), Johann Elert Bode (1747), August Kopff (1882), and Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670). After him are Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), and Wilhelm Beer (1797).

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