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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 8,876 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hermann von Struve is the 304th most popular astronomer (down from 290th in 2019), the 1,268th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hermann von Struve ranks 304 out of 644. Before him are Michael van Langren, Robert T. A. Innes, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Carl Gustav Witt, and Antonia Maury. After him are Wilhelm Gliese, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Richard Christopher Carrington, Otto August Rosenberger, Franz Kaiser, and Karl Christian Bruhns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hermann von Struve ranks 70. Before him are Jane Toppan, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Isidor Gunsberg, Ludwig von Pastor, José Canalejas, and Petros Protopapadakis. After him are Franz Rohr von Denta, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Maria Zankovetska, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Sergei Shchukin, and Johan Turi. Among people deceased in 1920, Hermann von Struve ranks 74. Before him are Vladimir Makovsky, Gyula Benczúr, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Hector Hodler, Delfim Moreira, and Herbert James Draper. After him are Wilhelm Pfeffer, Olive Thomas, Nasrullah Khan, Pál Szinyei Merse, Jaan Poska, and Nataliya Kobrynska.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Hermann von Struve ranks 1,268 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Makarov (1914), Ekaterina Maximova (1939), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Valerian Zorin (1902), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), and Mikhail Prishvin (1873). After him are Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Sergey Lebedev (1902), Andrey Makarevich (1953), Grigory Romanov (1923), and Yuri Bezmenov (1939).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Hermann von Struve ranks 4. Before him are Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), and Sergey Belyavsky (1883). After him are Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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