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Johann Bayer

1572 - 1625

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Johann Bayer (1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer). He was born in Rain, Lower Bavaria, in 1572. At twenty, in 1592 he began his study of philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer, becoming legal adviser to the city council in 1612.Bayer had several interests outside his work, including archaeology and mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Bayer has received more than 124,413 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Johann Bayer is the 33rd most popular astronomer (up from 38th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Germany (up from 489th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Astronomer.

Johann Bayer was a German astronomer and cartographer who is most famous for the publication of Uranometria, a star atlas.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Bayer ranks 33 out of 531. Before him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Avempace, William Alfred Fowler, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Fred Hoyle. After him are Caroline Herschel, Wilhelm Schickard, Michel Mayor, Adolphe Quetelet, Jan Oort, and Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1572, Johann Bayer ranks 1. After him are John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, John Donne, Cornelis Drebbel, Sigismund Báthory, Ben Jonson, Jane Frances de Chantal, Cyril Lucaris, Izumo no Okuni, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Marie Elisabeth of France. Among people deceased in 1625, Johann Bayer ranks 5. Before him are James VI and I, Sofonisba Anguissola, Maurice, Prince of Orange, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. After him are Simon Marius, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Willem Schouten, Duchess Anna of Prussia, Giambattista Marino, Mōri Terumoto, and Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Bayer ranks 477 out of 6,142. Before him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wassily Leontief (1906), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Adolf Galland (1912). After him are Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Adolf Windaus (1876), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Sophia of Nassau (1836), Adam Opel (1837), and Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johann Bayer ranks 5. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571), William Herschel (1738), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), and Johann Gottfried Galle (1812). After him are Caroline Herschel (1750), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Max Wolf (1863), and Karl Ludwig Harding (1765).

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