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Gustav Spörer

1822 - 1895

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Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 – 7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles. In this regard he is often mentioned together with Edward Maunder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Spörer has received more than 19,172 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gustav Spörer is the 336th most popular astronomer (up from 339th in 2019), the 3,621st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,448th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gustav Spörer ranks 336 out of 531. Before her are Jing Fang, Cyril Jackson, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Holger Thiele, Vladimir Albitsky, and Georges Rayet. After her are Viktor Knorre, Maarten Schmidt, Félix Tisserand, Luboš Kohoutek, Eugene Parker, and Dirk Brouwer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Gustav Spörer ranks 56. Before her are Willem Roelofs, Alexander Mackenzie, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Mathew Brady, Jakob Dubs, and Dmitry Grigorovich. After her are Luis Sáenz Peña, Janko Kráľ, Julius von Haast, Adolph Strecker, Victor Massé, and Bernhard Hammer. Among people deceased in 1895, Gustav Spörer ranks 60. Before her are Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Daniel Kirkwood, Giuseppe Prinzi, L. L. Langstroth, Petko Slaveykov, and Jorge Isaacs. After her are Karl Schenk, Louise Otto-Peters, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Knud Knudsen, Thomas Francis Wade, and Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Spörer ranks 3,621 out of 6,142. Before her are Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Herluf Bidstrup (1912), Alfred Pfaff (1926), Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), Marc Forster (1969), and Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852). After her are Karoline von Günderrode (1780), Emil Julius Gumbel (1891), Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Theile (1646), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), and Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Gustav Spörer ranks 51. Before her are Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Otto Lesser (1830), Franz Kaiser (1891), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christine Kirch (1697), and Carl Gustav Witt (1866). After her are Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Paul Götz (1883), Otto Heckmann (1901), and Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806).

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