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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

1825 - 1884

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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (25 October 1825 in Eutin, Germany – 7 February 1884 in Athens, Greece) was a German astronomer and geophysicist. He was the director of the National Observatory of Athens in Greece from 1858 to 1884. Julius Schmidt was tireless in his work, it was suggested by William Henry Pickering that he perhaps devoted more of his life than any other man to the study of the Moon. During his lifetime, he made some of the most complete lunar maps of the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt is the 437th most popular astronomer (up from 443rd in 2019), the 4,314th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,609th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 437 out of 644. Before him are Henry L. Giclas, Herbert Hall Turner, Cuno Hoffmeister, Adrien Auzout, Horace W. Babcock, and Erika Böhm-Vitense. After him are Otto August Rosenberger, Robert Julius Trumpler, Ralph Copeland, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Ernest Leonard Johnson, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 68. Before him are Mårten Eskil Winge, Emil Welti, Karl Doppler, Domingo Santa María, Rafael Núñez, and Pashko Vasa. After him are Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, Princess Marie of Nassau, E. Marlitt, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, George Pickett, and Richard Maack. Among people deceased in 1884, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 52. Before him are Pavlo Chubynsky, Kiến Phúc, Cyrus McCormick, Miroslav Tyrš, Emanuel Geibel, and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim. After him are Buenaventura Báez, Jean-Augustin Barral, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Heinrich Göppert, Daniel Harrwitz, and Ferdinand von Hochstetter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 4,316 out of 7,253. Before him are Mika'ela Fisher (1975), Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901), Heinz Kubsch (1930), Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767), Rudolf Wagner (1805), and Tom Wlaschiha (1973). After him are Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (1855), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), Walter Kaufmann (1871), and Heinrich Zimmer (1890).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 66. Before him are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), and Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923). After him are Joseph Helffrich (1890), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Richard Schorr (1867), and Otto Heckmann (1901).

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