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Hugo Gyldén

1841 - 1896

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Johan August Hugo Gyldén (May 29, 1841 in Helsinki – November 9, 1896 in Stockholm) was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics. Gyldén was the son of Nils Abraham Gyldén, Professor of Classical philology at the University of Helsinki and baroness Beata Sofia Gyldén. He spent his student years at his father's university, graduating as a filosofie magister from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in 1860. He studied under Lorenz Leonard Lindelof and then went to do a postdoctoral at Gotha under Peter Hansen working on the orbit of Neptune. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Gyldén is the 469th most popular astronomer (down from 409th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Finland (down from 261st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hugo Gyldén ranks 469 out of 644. Before him are Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Joel Stebbins, Milorad B. Protić, Bohdan Paczyński, Audouin Dollfus, and William Wilson Morgan. After him are Hiroki Kosai, Carolyn Porco, Elia Millosevich, Minoru Honda, Pierre Puiseux, and Edward Pigott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Hugo Gyldén ranks 86. Before him are Julius Zeyer, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Tang Jingsong, Anselmo Lorenzo, Paul Eyschen, and Manuel Candamo. After him are Alfred Cogniaux, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Adolfo Farsari, Giuseppe Pitrè, Chrétien Waydelich, and Mary Arthur McElroy. Among people deceased in 1896, Hugo Gyldén ranks 75. Before him are Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Aleksandr Stoletov, Élie-Abel Carrière, Luigi Palmieri, Jane Wilde, and Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs. After him are Ilya Berezin, George du Maurier, Eugen Baumann, Theodore Robinson, Narciso Campero, and William Quan Judge.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Hugo Gyldén ranks 287 out of 751. Before him are Julius Saaristo (1891), Väinö Siikaniemi (1887), Martti Marttelin (1897), Pertti Karppinen (1953), Christina Abrahamsdotter (1432), and Keijo Liinamaa (1929). After him are Rainer von Fieandt (1890), Sulo Bärlund (1910), Urho Castrén (1886), Ville Pörhölä (1897), Antero Kivi (1904), and Pekka Vasala (1948).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Finland

Among astronomers born in Finland, Hugo Gyldén ranks 4. Before him are Yrjö Väisälä (1891), Liisi Oterma (1915), and Heikki A. Alikoski (1912).

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