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Otto Lesser

1830 - 1887

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Otto Leberecht Lesser (16 October 1830 – 12 August 1887) was a German astronomer who co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Wilhelm Julius Foerster on September 14, 1860 at the Berlin Observatory. This was the first co-discovery on record. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Lesser is the 359th most popular astronomer (down from 295th in 2019), the 3,704th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,471st in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Lesser ranks 359 out of 644. Before him are Heikki A. Alikoski, Marc William Buie, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Stephen P. Synnott, and Albert George Wilson. After him are Maurice Loewy, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Paul Götz, Alvan Clark, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Seth Carlo Chandler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Otto Lesser ranks 50. Before him are Harriet Lane, Kálmán Tisza, Karl Christian Bruhns, Mehmed Said Pasha, Grigor Parlichev, and Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Marianne North, Nain Singh, Ivan Larionov, Daniel Oliver, Jhalkaribai, and Gustav Lange. Among people deceased in 1887, Otto Lesser ranks 31. Before him are Hippolyte Bayard, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, August von Werder, August W. Eichler, and Peter Jan Beckx. After him are Alvan Clark, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, Joachim IV of Constantinople, Lysander Spooner, and Joseph Whitworth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 3,706 out of 7,253. Before him are Elia Levita (1469), Ludwig Renn (1889), Hans von Koessler (1853), Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Conrad of Parzham (1818), and Bernhard Klodt (1926). After him are Michael Grätzel (1944), Lotte Lehmann (1888), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Anna Hübler (1885), Paul Götz (1883), and Friedrich von Huene (1875).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 54. Before him are Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Franz Kaiser (1891), Julius Schiller (1580), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), and Carl Gustav Witt (1866). After him are Paul Götz (1883), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Ludwig Biermann (1907).

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