ASTRONOMER

Heinrich Kreutz

1854 - 1907

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Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz (September 8, 1854 – July 13, 1907) was a German astronomer, most notable for his studies of the orbits of several sungrazing comets, which revealed that they were all related objects, produced when a very large Sun-grazing comet fragmented several hundred years previously. The group is now known as the Kreutz Sungrazers, and has produced some of the brightest comets ever seen, including X/1106 C1 and Comet Ikeya–Seki. The source of the group may have been the Great Comet of 371 BC. Kreutz was born in Siegen in 1854, and obtained his PhD at the University of Bonn in 1880 on the orbit of comet C/1861 J1. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Kreutz has received more than 16,926 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Kreutz is the 476th most popular astronomer, the 4,883rd most popular biography from Germany and the 70th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 476 out of 644. Before him are Holger Thiele, Royal Harwood Frost, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Pelageya Shajn, and Forest Ray Moulton. After him are Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Audouin Dollfus, Carl A. Wirtanen, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Hiroki Kosai, and Barnaba Oriani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 108. Before him are Niels Neergaard, Ivan Horbachevsky, David Dunbar Buick, Giuseppe Veronese, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and Gottlieb Haberlandt. After him are Hermann Oldenberg, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Joseph Jacobs, Francis Marion Crawford, William C. Gorgas, and Dukinfield Henry Scott. Among people deceased in 1907, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 88. Before him are Jules de Trooz, Lena Rice, Dimitar Petkov, Muriel Robb, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, and Charles Howard Hinton. After him are Macario Sakay, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles W. Alcock, Christen Dalsgaard, Guillermo Tell Villegas, and Nikolai Menshutkin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 4,883 out of 7,253. Before him are Günter Lamprecht (1930), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Wilhelm Baumann (1912), Paul Matschie (1861), Günther Jauch (1956), and Andreas Pietschmann (1969). After him are Gustav Goßler (1879), Walter Lübcke (1953), Felix Brych (1975), Klaus Schmidt (1953), Helmut Kremers (1949), and Gorch Fock (1880).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Kreutz ranks 70. Before him are Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), and Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806). After him are Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), and Alfred Bohrmann (1904).

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