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Hugo Gyldén

1841 - 1896

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Johan August Hugo Gyldén (May 29, 1841 in Helsinki – November 9, 1896 in Stockholm) was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics. Gyldén was the son of Nils Abraham Gyldén, Professor of Classical philology at the University of Helsinki and baroness Beata Sofia Gyldén. He spent his student years at his father's university, graduating as a filosofie magister from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Gyldén has received more than 16,266 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Gyldén is the 409th most popular astronomer (down from 349th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Finland (down from 184th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hugo Gyldén ranks 409 out of 644. Before him are Paul W. Merrill, Lyudmila Karachkina, Frank Elmore Ross, Ludwig Biermann, Elizabeth Roemer, and Otto Heckmann. After him are Grigory Shajn, Harold Spencer Jones, Harold D. Babcock, Catherine Cesarsky, William Rutter Dawes, and Margaret Lindsay Huggins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Hugo Gyldén ranks 86. Before him are Julius Zeyer, René Panhard, Savva Mamontov, Joaquín Crespo, Giuseppe Pitrè, and Louis-Ernest Barrias. After him are Manuel Candamo, Gaudenzio Marconi, Alfred Cogniaux, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Nelson W. Aldrich, and James Gordon Bennett Jr.. Among people deceased in 1896, Hugo Gyldén ranks 71. Before him are Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Alexey Bogolyubov, Simeon Bavier, Élie-Abel Carrière, Aleksandr Stoletov, and Luigi Palmieri. After him are George du Maurier, Theodore Robinson, Adalbert Krueger, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Ilya Berezin, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr..

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Hugo Gyldén ranks 261 out of 751. Before him are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Stina Ekblad (1954), Sigrid Fick (1887), Ali Aaltonen (1884), Eino Penttilä (1906), and Taina Elg (1930). After him are Verner Weckman (1882), Toivo Loukola (1902), Lasse Mårtenson (1934), Paavo Väyrynen (1946), Eino Leino (1891), and Kalle Anttila (1887).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Finland

Among astronomers born in Finland, Hugo Gyldén ranks 4. Before him are Yrjö Väisälä (1891), Liisi Oterma (1915), and Heikki A. Alikoski (1912).

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