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Holger Thiele

1878 - 1946

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Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets. He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named. Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Holger Thiele has received more than 17,624 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Holger Thiele is the 470th most popular astronomer (down from 333rd in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 371st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Holger Thiele ranks 470 out of 644. Before him are Charles Piazzi Smyth, Stephen P. Synnott, Mary Adela Blagg, Alexander Voeikov, Schelte J. Bus, and Hiroshi Kaneda. After him are Royal Harwood Frost, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Pelageya Shajn, Forest Ray Moulton, and Heinrich Kreutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Holger Thiele ranks 194. Before him are John Derbyshire, Gustav Schuft, Mikheil Tsereteli, Francisco Lagos Cházaro, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and Muriel Robb. After him are Constance Collier, Frank Dixon, George Campbell, Macario Sakay, Walther Katzenstein, and María Guadalupe García Zavala. Among people deceased in 1946, Holger Thiele ranks 195. Before him are Elvira Notari, Leonida Tonelli, Granville Bantock, Camillo Caccia Dominioni, Teodor Shteingel, and Cornelius Johnson. After him are Joseph Stella, Mary Alden, Walter Johnson, Ferdinand Boberg, León Cortés Castro, and Hendrik Adamson.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Holger Thiele ranks 520 out of 1,032. Before him are Tom Belsø (1942), Jens Christian Christensen (1856), Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier (1888), Martin Braithwaite (1991), Otto Liebe (1860), and Klaus Berntsen (1844). After him are Lone Scherfig (1959), Michala Petri (1958), Villy Sørensen (1929), Andreas Christensen (1996), John Sivebæk (1961), and Niels Arden Oplev (1961).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Holger Thiele ranks 7. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Richard Martin West (1941), and Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562). After him are Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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