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Carl Gustav Witt

1866 - 1946

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Carl Gustav Witt (29 October 1866 – 3 January 1946) was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.He wrote a doctoral thesis under the direction of Julius Bauschinger. Witt discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first asteroid with a male name, and the first known near-Earth object. His first minor planet discovery was the main-belt asteroid 422 Berolina, that bears the Latin name of his adoptive city.The minor planet 2732 Witt – an A-type asteroid from the main-belt, discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory in 1926 – was named in his memory by American astronomer and MPC's longtime director, Brian G. Marsden. Naming citation was published on 22 September 1983 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustav Witt has received more than 21,273 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Carl Gustav Witt is the 302nd most popular astronomer (up from 324th in 2019), the 3,528th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,531st in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Astronomer.

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Over the past year Carl Gustav Witt has had the most page views in the with 2,288 views, followed by German (1,295), and Chinese (1,282). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (48.82%), Romanian (41.83%), and Croatian (35.98%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 302 out of 644. Before him are Walter Lewin, Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, Robert T. A. Innes, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, and Edwin Ernest Salpeter. After him are Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, Wilhelm Gliese, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Otto August Rosenberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 89. Before him are Kuroda Seiki, Tor Aulin, Max Wien, Avetis Aharonian, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, and Janis Rozentāls. After him are Antonia Maury, Erik Ivar Fredholm, James J. Corbett, J. B. M. Hertzog, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Alexey Troitsky. Among people deceased in 1946, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 127. Before him are Louis Bachelier, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Harry Hopkins, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Alexey Sudayev. After him are Matteo Bartoli, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Maximilian Steinberg, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Grigory Neujmin, and Dorothy Gibson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 3,528 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Sibylle of Saxony (1515), Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1725), Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), and Kurt Adolff (1921). After him are Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1762), Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Sophie von La Roche (1730), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), and Ubbo Emmius (1547).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Carl Gustav Witt ranks 46. Before him are Wilhelm Beer (1797), Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Freimut Börngen (1930), and Otto Lesser (1830). After him are Franz Kaiser (1891), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Christine Kirch (1697), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765).

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