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Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke

1835 - 1897

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Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (5 February 1835 in Groß-Heere, near Hannover – 3 December 1897 in Bonn) was a German astronomer. Winnecke worked at Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg from 1858 to 1865, but returned to Germany and served as professor of astronomy in Strasbourg from 1872 to 1881. He discovered or co-discovered a large number of comets, including the periodic comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke and the comet once known as "Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes" but later renamed to 27P/Crommelin after Andrew Crommelin, who computed its orbit. Winnecke also compiled a list of double stars, the Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars, in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke has received more than 12,812 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke is the 336th most popular astronomer (up from 346th in 2019), the 3,813th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,675th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 336 out of 644. Before him are Alvan Clark, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Geminiano Montanari, Raymond Smith Dugan, Elia Millosevich, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. After him are Didier Queloz, Benjamin Markarian, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Daniel Kirkwood, Adriaan van Maanen, and Edward Sabine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 56. Before him are Krišjānis Barons, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Adlai Stevenson I, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Felix Draeseke, and Benjamin Briggs. After him are Rain-in-the-Face, Manuel Quintana, Bertalan Székely, Désirée Artôt, Antanas Baranauskas, and Justo Rufino Barrios. Among people deceased in 1897, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 48. Before him are Ion Ghica, Émile Levassor, Prince William of Baden, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, and Édouard Deldevez. After him are Rutherford Alcock, Willem Roelofs, Effie Gray, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Heinrich von Stephan, and Aleko Konstantinov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 3,813 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810), Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Friedel Lutz (1939), Bernhard Romberg (1767), and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744). After him are Inge Borkh (1921), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Wolfgang Kleff (1946), Blixa Bargeld (1959), and Walter Kempowski (1929).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 51. Before him are Otto Lesser (1830), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Franz Kaiser (1891), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Christine Kirch (1697), and Joseph Helffrich (1890). After him are Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Paul Götz (1883), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Ernst Hartwig (1851), and Albrecht Unsöld (1905).

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