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Hermann von Struve

1854 - 1920

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Karl Hermann von Struve (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1854 – 12 August 1920) was a Baltic German astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Hermann von Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann von Struve has received more than 7,717 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hermann von Struve is the 290th most popular astronomer (up from 326th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hermann von Struve ranks 290 out of 531Before him are Frank Watson Dyson, André-Louis Danjon, Benjamin Baillaud, Raymond Smith Dugan, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and Otto Lesser. After him are Aleksander Wolszczan, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Wilhelm Gliese, Maurice Loewy, and Allan Sandage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hermann von Struve ranks 71Before him are Yehuda Pen, Benjamin Tucker, Vasil Radoslavov, José Canalejas, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. After him are Arnošt Muka, Cornelis Lely, Jenny Nyström, Jules Gilliéron, Maria Zankovetska, and Giovanni Battista Grassi. Among people deceased in 1920, Hermann von Struve ranks 68Before him are Nasib Yusifbeyli, Olive Thomas, Matthías Jochumsson, Grigory Potanin, Adolf Albin, and Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta. After him are John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Pál Szinyei Merse, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Heinrich Lammasch, Jaan Poska, and Norman Lockyer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Hermann von Struve ranks 1,218 out of 3,262Before him are Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), Irina Skobtseva (1927), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Bob Martin (1922), Victor Skumin (1948), and William Fermor (1702). After him are Nikolai Noskov (1956), Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), and Boris Barnet (1902).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Hermann von Struve ranks 4Before him are Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), and Sergey Belyavsky (1883). After him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Pelageya Shajn (1894), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).