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Holger Thiele

1878 - 1946

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Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets. He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named. Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916. He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Holger Thiele is the 450th most popular astronomer (up from 470th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 520th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Holger Thiele ranks 450 out of 644. Before him are Willem Jacob Luyten, Lipót Schulhof, Schelte J. Bus, Paul W. Merrill, Vladimir Kotelnikov, and Joseph Helffrich. After him are Fernand Courty, Hans-Emil Schuster, Ernst Hartwig, Mary Proctor, William Robert Brooks, and Grigory Shajn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Holger Thiele ranks 187. Before him are Giuseppe Adami, Rudolf Walden, Viktor Nogin, Jean Becquerel, William Orpen, and Albert Nasse. After him are Edwin Mills, Ladislav Klíma, Leopold Staff, Dorothea Bate, Joel Stebbins, and Harry Carey. Among people deceased in 1946, Holger Thiele ranks 173. Before him are Carl Theodor Zahle, Mae Busch, Federigo Enriques, Juan Antonio Ríos, Safiya Zaghloul, and Frederick W. Lanchester. After him are Shirase Nobu, Edwin Mills, Frank Hadow, Eugene Lanceray, Barbu Știrbey, and Wen Yiduo.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Holger Thiele ranks 453 out of 1,032. Before him are Axel Schandorff (1925), Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1595), Kurt Nielsen (1930), Niels Neergaard (1854), Klaus Berntsen (1844), and Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1584). After him are Theodor Philipsen (1840), Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (1876), Lars Olsen (1961), Johan Lange (1818), Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812), and Karl Madsen (1855).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Holger Thiele ranks 7. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), and Richard Martin West (1941). After him are Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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