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Karl Ludwig Littrow

1811 - 1877

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Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow (18 July 1811 – 16 November 1877) was an Austrian astronomer. Born in Kazan, Russian Empire, he was the son of astronomer Joseph Johann Littrow. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at the University of Krakow in 1832. In 1842 he succeeded his father as director of the Vienna Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Ludwig Littrow is the 542nd most popular astronomer (down from 484th in 2019), the 2,129th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,043rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Karl Ludwig Littrow ranks 542 out of 644. Before him are Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Benjamin Banneker, John Huchra, John Stanley Plaskett, Ernest Esclangon, and María Teresa Ruiz. After him are Lidiya Tseraskaya, Vincenzo Cerulli, Pavel Shternberg, John N. Bahcall, Louise du Pierry, and Adelaide Ames.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Karl Ludwig Littrow ranks 68. Before him are Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Victor Duruy, and Henry Liddell. After him are John William Casilear, Alfred Domett, Charles Sumner, Juan Bautista Ceballos, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, and George Caleb Bingham. Among people deceased in 1877, Karl Ludwig Littrow ranks 66. Before him are Facundo Machaín, Edward Belcher, Henry Monnier, Filippo Parlatore, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, and Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo. After him are Elizabeth F. Ellet, Caroline Norton, and Toru Dutt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Karl Ludwig Littrow ranks 2,129 out of 3,761. Before him are Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Yelena Davydova (1961), Pavel Sadyrin (1942), Daniil Kvyat (1994), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), and Roald Sagdeev (1932). After him are Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855), Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (1971), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), Nina Otkalenko (1928), and Denis Cheryshev (1990).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Karl Ludwig Littrow ranks 15. Before him are Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Pelageya Shajn (1894), and Matvey Gusev (1826). After him are Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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