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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 11,663 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke is the 346th most popular astronomer (down from 271st in 2019), the 3,684th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,975th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 346 out of 531. Before him are Luboš Kohoutek, Eugene Parker, Dirk Brouwer, Paul W. Merrill, Odette Bancilhon, and Vladimir Kotelnikov. After him are Joseph Helffrich, Elia Millosevich, Hugo Gyldén, David Rittenhouse, Sandra Faber, and Brian G. Marsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 59. Before him are Adlai Stevenson I, Benjamin Briggs, Kārlis Baumanis, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Antanas Baranauskas, and Rain-in-the-Face. After him are Germanus V of Constantinople, Désirée Artôt, Manuel Quintana, Justo Rufino Barrios, Paul Du Chaillu, and Tommaso Salvadori. Among people deceased in 1897, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 53. Before him are Rutherford Alcock, Édouard Deldevez, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Effie Gray, Mutsu Munemitsu, and William Henry Conley. After him are Gotō Shōjirō, Aleko Konstantinov, Charles Blondin, Oscar Dickson, Léon Gautier, and Carl Remigius Fresenius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 3,684 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Bauer (1927), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679), Jacques Loeb (1859), Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), and Moritz Cantor (1829). After him are Jörg Immendorff (1945), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (1994), Dorothee Sölle (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924), Brigitte Hamann (1940), and Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1825).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke ranks 52. Before him are Otto Lesser (1830), Franz Kaiser (1891), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christine Kirch (1697), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), and Gustav Spörer (1822). After him are Joseph Helffrich (1890), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Paul Götz (1883), Otto Heckmann (1901), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), and Gottfried Kirch (1639).

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