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Hermann Goldschmidt

1802 - 1866

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Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – August 30 or September 10 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy. His discovery of the asteroid Lutetia in 1852 was followed by further findings and by 1861 Goldschmidt had discovered 14 asteroids. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1861 for having discovered more asteroids than any other person up to that time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Goldschmidt is the 126th most popular astronomer (down from 124th in 2019), the 1,167th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,402nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Astronomer.

Hermann Goldschmidt was a German chemist who discovered the element hafnium.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hermann Goldschmidt ranks 126 out of 644Before him are George Biddell Airy, Frank Drake, N. R. Pogson, Ernst Öpik, Maria Mitchell, and Girolamo Fracastoro. After him are Svetlana Gerasimenko, E. M. Antoniadi, Didier Queloz, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Reinhard Genzel, and Johann Hieronymus Schröter.

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Among people born in 1802, Hermann Goldschmidt ranks 16Before him are Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, and Pavel Nakhimov. After him are Nikolaus Lenau, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Husein Gradaščević, Germain Henri Hess, Charlotte Bonaparte, and Charles Auguste de Bériot. Among people deceased in 1866, Hermann Goldschmidt ranks 6Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Miguel I of Portugal, George Everest, Karl Ludwig Hencke, and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Tokugawa Iemochi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, William Whewell, Chief Seattle, and Friedrich Rückert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Goldschmidt ranks 1,167 out of 7,253Before him are Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Johann Mattheson (1681), Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), and Hans Reichenbach (1891). After him are Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Julius Richard Petri (1852), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1624), Johannes Frießner (1892), and Levin August von Bennigsen (1745).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Hermann Goldschmidt ranks 24Before him are Arthur Auwers (1838), David Fabricius (1564), Johann Elert Bode (1747), August Kopff (1882), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), and Heinrich Schwabe (1789). After him are Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Wilhelm Beer (1797), and Hermann Carl Vogel (1841).