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Heinrich Christian Schumacher

1780 - 1850

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Prof Heinrich Christian Schumacher FRS(For) FRSE (3 September 1780 – 28 December 1850) was a German-Danish astronomer and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Christian Schumacher has received more than 25,645 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Heinrich Christian Schumacher is the 219th most popular astronomer (down from 209th in 2019), the 2,534th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,529th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heinrich Christian Schumacher ranks 219 out of 644. Before him are James Craig Watson, Erasmus Reinhold, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Antonio de Ulloa, Rudolf Wolf, and Francis Preserved Leavenworth. After him are John Bevis, Sergey Belyavsky, Benjamin Baillaud, Johannes Fabricius, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, and George William Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Heinrich Christian Schumacher ranks 23. Before him are August Leopold Crelle, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anastasio Bustamante, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles Maturin, and Clarke Abel. After him are Angelica Catalani, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Conradin Kreutzer, Élie, duc Decazes, Alexandre Deschapelles, and Robert Torrens. Among people deceased in 1850, Heinrich Christian Schumacher ranks 30. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, William Prout, Johann Gottfried Schadow, John C. Calhoun, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, and Lorenzo Bartolini. After him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Margaret Fuller, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, and Bashir Shihab II.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Christian Schumacher ranks 2,534 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1622), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), Barthel Beham (1502), Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), and Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872). After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), and Charlotte Buff (1753).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Christian Schumacher ranks 37. Before him are Tobias Mayer (1723), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), and Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794). After him are Johannes Fabricius (1587), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Wilhelm Beer (1797), Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), and Maria Clara Eimmart (1676).

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