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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 20,911 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Cuno Hoffmeister is the 492nd most popular astronomer (down from 396th in 2019), the 4,618th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,697th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 492 out of 531. Before him are Walter Frederick Gale, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, John N. Bahcall, Wilhelm Anderson, Richard A. Proctor, and James Challis. After him are Mary Adela Blagg, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Irwin I. Shapiro, David L. Rabinowitz, Roy A. Tucker, and Hisashi Kimura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 243. Before him are Henry Macintosh, David Garnett, Harry Mallin, Jacob Viner, Keith Park, and Ezio Pinza. After him are Marston Morse, Muhammad Sakizli, Ruth Roland, Seiichiro Kashio, Claire Windsor, and Per Bertilsson. Among people deceased in 1968, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 208. Before him are Luis Brunetto, Sándor Gombos, Diógenes Lara, Ilias Tsirimokos, Marcel Pinel, and Robert Liottel. After him are Harold Nicolson, Emil Hirschfeld, Maurice Larrouy, Panagiotis Poulitsas, William Varley, and Nikolai Stepulov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 4,618 out of 6,142. Before him are Andreas Kaplan (1977), Hermann Hansen (1912), Ole von Beust (1955), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Angela Voigt (1951), and Rick J. Jordan (1968). After him are Zvjezdan Misimović (1982), Heinz Hornig (1937), Michael Bella (1945), George Engelmann (1809), Matthias Behr (1955), and Otto Scheff (1889).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Cuno Hoffmeister ranks 68. Before him are Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), and Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902). After him are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912).

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