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Johannes Fabricius

1587 - 1616

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Johann Goldsmid, better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587 – 19 March 1616), eldest son of David Fabricius (1564–1617), was a Frisian astronomer and a modern era discoverer of sunspots in 1611, preceded by Thomas Harriot and followed by Galileo Galilei. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Fabricius is the 233rd most popular astronomer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 2,459th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,621st in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johannes Fabricius ranks 233 out of 644. Before him are Alexis Bouvard, William Wallace Campbell, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Thomas Gold, Edward L. G. Bowell, and Tamara Smirnova. After him are Robert T. A. Innes, César-François Cassini de Thury, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Wilhelm Gliese, Paul Wild, and Rudolf Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1587, Johannes Fabricius ranks 12. Before him are Samuel Scheidt, Stefano Landi, Esaias van de Velde, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Magdalene of Bavaria. After him are Song Yingxing, Claes Jansz. Visscher, Virginia Dare, Yun Seondo, and Khusrau Mirza. Among people deceased in 1616, Johannes Fabricius ranks 12. Before him are Jacob Le Maire, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Andreas Libavius, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Simeon Bekbulatovich. After him are Kuzma Minin, Tang Xianzu, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Francis Beaumont, Matthias de l'Obel, and Richard Hakluyt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Fabricius ranks 2,460 out of 7,253. Before him are Dietrich Kraiss (1889), Wilhelm Marschall (1886), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Theodor Lessing (1872), Ferdinand von Bredow (1884), and Alfred Hettner (1859). After him are Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Christiane Vulpius (1765), Wilhelm, Duke of Urach (1810), Jurij Brězan (1916), Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740), and Fritz Klingenberg (1912).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johannes Fabricius ranks 40. Before him are Tobias Mayer (1723), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), and Johannes Schöner (1477). After him are Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Christine Kirch (1697), and Karl Christian Bruhns (1830).

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