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Julius Schiller

1580 - 1627

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Julius Schiller (c. 1580 – 1627) was a lawyer from Augsburg who, like his fellow citizen and colleague Johann Bayer, published a star atlas in celestial cartography. In the year of his death, Schiller, with Bayer's assistance, published the star atlas Coelum Stellatum Christianum which replaced the pagan names of constellations with biblical and early Christian figures. Specifically, Schiller replaced the zodiacal constellations with the twelve apostles, the northern constellations by figures from the New Testament, and the southern constellations by figures from the Old Testament. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Schiller is the 337th most popular astronomer (up from 396th in 2019), the 3,536th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,349th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Julius Schiller ranks 337 out of 644. Before him are Allan Sandage, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Maria Clara Eimmart, Franz Kaiser, Beatrice Tinsley, and James Challis. After him are Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Heinrich Kreutz, James L. Elliot, Klim Churyumov, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, and Fang Lizhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Julius Schiller ranks 20. Before him are António de Andrade, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Andrea Falconieri, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Pierre Vernier, and Matei Basarab. After him are Daniël Heinsius, Carlo Contarini, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania, Thomas Middleton, Johann Faulhaber, and Dirk Hartog. Among people deceased in 1627, Julius Schiller ranks 16. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Olivier van Noort, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, and Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. After him are Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Christina of Salm, Jan Gruter, and Thomas Middleton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Schiller ranks 3,538 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675), Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz (1666), Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1827), Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896), and Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854). After him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Werner Egk (1901), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), and Gertrude of Sulzbach (1114).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Julius Schiller ranks 51. Before him are Christine Kirch (1697), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), and Franz Kaiser (1891). After him are Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Otto Lesser (1830), Paul Götz (1883), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), and Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806).

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