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Heinrich Louis d'Arrest

1822 - 1875

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Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (13 August 1822 – 14 June 1875; German pronunciation: [daˈʁɛ] ) was a German astronomer, born in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Louis d'Arrest has received more than 42,998 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Heinrich Louis d'Arrest is the 67th most popular astronomer (down from 57th in 2019), the 868th most popular biography from Germany (down from 707th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Astronomer.

Heinrich Louis d'Arrest is most famous for his discovery of the comet which bears his name, Comet d'Arrest.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ranks 67 out of 531Before him are Vera Rubin, Percival Lowell, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gerard Kuiper, and Riccardo Giacconi. After him are George Darwin, Albert Marth, William Lassell, Victor Ambartsumian, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, and Max Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ranks 18Before him are Charles Hermite, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Edmond de Goncourt, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Adelaide of Austria, and Sa'id of Egypt. After him are Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Rosa Bonheur, Red Cloud, Henri Murger, Juan, Count of Montizón, and Ignacy Łukasiewicz. Among people deceased in 1875, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ranks 13Before him are Tongzhi Emperor, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, Éliphas Lévi, John Edward Gray, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Moses Hess, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Pierre Larousse, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Amalia of Oldenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ranks 868 out of 6,142Before him are Robert Aumann (1930), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Carl von Linde (1842), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868). After him are Moses Hess (1812), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Erich Kempka (1910), Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810), Hennig Brand (1630), and Albert of Brandenburg (1490).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ranks 10Before him are Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Johann Bayer (1572), Caroline Herschel (1750), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793). After him are Max Wolf (1863), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Walter Baade (1893), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Petrus Apianus (1495), and David Fabricius (1564).