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Franz Kaiser

1891 - 1962

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Franz Heinrich Kaiser (25 April 1891 – 13 March 1962) was a German astronomer. He worked at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while working on his Ph.D. there, which he obtained in 1915. During this time, Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery, and Kaiser discovered 21 asteroids during his time there. The outer main-belt asteroid 3183 Franzkaiser was named in his memory on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Kaiser has received more than 16,910 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Kaiser is the 309th most popular astronomer (down from 298th in 2019), the 3,588th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,397th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Franz Kaiser ranks 309 out of 644Before him are Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, Wilhelm Gliese, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Otto August Rosenberger. After him are Karl Christian Bruhns, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Adam Riess, Grigory Neujmin, Maurice Loewy, and Lewis Boss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Franz Kaiser ranks 152Before him are Alberto Savinio, Ágnes Esterházy, Zora Neale Hurston, W. Averell Harriman, Charley Patton, and Victoria Kent. After him are Adolf Busch, Emil Julius Gumbel, Galaktion Tabidze, Erich Marcks, Fréhel, and Sam Jaffe. Among people deceased in 1962, Franz Kaiser ranks 106Before him are Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Richard Herrmann, Abdullah Goran, Carl Diem, Hermann Muhs, and Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria. After him are Raquel Meller, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Donald Lippincott, and Kunio Yanagita.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Kaiser ranks 3,588 out of 7,253Before him are Justus Jonas (1493), Moritz Wagner (1813), Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Gerald Götting (1923), Ilse Steppat (1917), and Christian Schad (1894). After him are Karl Muck (1859), Rob Pilatus (1965), Horst Blankenburg (1947), Paul von Rusdorf (1385), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), and Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Franz Kaiser ranks 47Before him are Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Lesser (1830), and Carl Gustav Witt (1866). After him are Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Christine Kirch (1697), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), and Georg Marcgrave (1610).