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Heinrich Schwabe

1789 - 1875

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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Schwabe has received more than 34,919 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Heinrich Schwabe is the 117th most popular astronomer (down from 110th in 2019), the 1,359th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,411th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Astronomer.

Heinrich Schwabe was a German physician and botanist who is most famous for his discovery of the periodicity of sunspots.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 117 out of 644. Before him are William Huggins, Édouard Stephan, Mary Somerville, Edward Charles Pickering, John Louis Emil Dreyer, and Walter Sydney Adams. After him are Frank Drake, Ernst Öpik, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Cleveland Abbe, Eric Walter Elst, and Ali Qushji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, María Isabella of Spain, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Abbas Mirza. After him are Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, and John Martin. Among people deceased in 1875, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 23. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Amalia of Oldenburg, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Jacques Paul Migne, and Francis V, Duke of Modena. After him are Tristan Corbière, Eduard Mörike, Duchenne de Boulogne, Friedrich Albert Lange, Svetozar Marković, and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 1,359 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinz Linge (1913), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Ernst Chladni (1756), Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), and Otto Rasch (1891). After him are Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Bernhard Rust (1883), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Heinrich Schwabe ranks 23. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Johann Elert Bode (1747), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), and Karl Ludwig Harding (1765). After him are Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Arthur Auwers (1838), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), and August Kopff (1882).

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