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Wilhelm Beer

1797 - 1850

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Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Beer is the 148th most popular astronomer (up from 231st in 2019), the 1,438th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,732nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Beer ranks 148 out of 644. Before him are William Henry Pickering, George Darwin, Oskar Backlund, Williamina Fleming, Antonio Abetti, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth. After him are Hermann Carl Vogel, Adelard of Bath, James Dunlop, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Maslama al-Majriti, and Jacobus Kapteyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Wilhelm Beer ranks 22. Before him are Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Alfred de Vigny, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Maria Isabel of Braganza, and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are Carlo Blasis, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Manuela Sáenz, James Ferguson, and Ida Laura Pfeiffer. Among people deceased in 1850, Wilhelm Beer ranks 18. Before him are Lin Zexu, José Gervasio Artigas, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Robert Peel, Nikolaus Lenau, and Adam Oehlenschläger. After him are Józef Bem, Germain Henri Hess, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Vincent Pallotti, and Jean-Pierre Boyer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 1,438 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Penck (1858), Rudolf Brandt (1909), Franz von Hipper (1863), Brigitte Helm (1906), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), and Jakob Wassermann (1873). After him are Bernhard Rust (1883), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), and Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 29. Before him are Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892). After him are Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Tobias Mayer (1723), and Andreas Cellarius (1596).

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