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Cuno Hoffmeister

1892 - 1968

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Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Born in Sonneberg in 1892 to Carl and Marie Hoffmeister, Cuno Hoffmeister obtained his first telescope in 1905 and became an avid amateur astronomer. After his father lost most of his money in 1914, Hoffmeister had to leave school in 1916 to start an apprenticeship in his father's company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cuno Hoffmeister has received more than 22,505 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Cuno Hoffmeister is the 433rd most popular astronomer (up from 492nd in 2019), the 4,562nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,604th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 433 out of 644. Before him are Adalbert Krueger, Joel Stebbins, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Fernand Courty, Milorad B. Protić, and Benjamin Jekhowsky. After him are George Van Biesbroeck, George Herbig, William Frederick Denning, Dilhan Eryurt, Odette Bancilhon, and Jill Tarter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 223. Before him are Gerhard Rohlfs, Graciliano Ramos, Jaan Kikkas, Milena Rudnytska, Werner Bergengruen, and Aleksandra Beļcova. After him are Mississippi John Hurt, Hal Foster, Al St. John, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Julius Hirsch, and Donald Wills Douglas Sr.. Among people deceased in 1968, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 180. Before him are Manuel Bandeira, René Navarre, Archie Mayo, Dan Duryea, Leo Sexton, and Hertha Sponer. After him are Hugo Benioff, Arnulf Øverland, Nick Adams, Giuseppe Lepori, Ellen Gleditsch, and Amparo Poch y Gascón.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 4,562 out of 7,253. Before him are Cordelia Edvardson (1929), Dana Wynter (1931), Emilie Snethlage (1868), Inge Meysel (1910), Rudolf Kittel (1853), and Oskar Messter (1866). After him are Oskar Lenz (1848), Christian Gmelin (1792), Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1825), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Otto Gebühr (1877), and Jens Weißflog (1964).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 66. Before him are Richard Schorr (1867), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), and Gustav Spörer (1822). After him are Gottfried Kirch (1639), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788).

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