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Johann Daniel Titius

1729 - 1796

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Johann Daniel Titius (born Johann Daniel Tietz(e), 2 January 1729 – 16 December 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg. Titius was born in Konitz (Chojnice), Royal Prussia (a fief of the Crown of Poland) to Jakob Tietz, a merchant and council member from Konitz, and Maria Dorothea, née Hanow. His original name was Johann Tietz, but as was customary in the 18th century, when he became a university professor, he Latinized his surname to Titius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Daniel Titius has received more than 40,381 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johann Daniel Titius is the 143rd most popular astronomer (down from 127th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Poland (down from 321st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 143 out of 644. Before him are Maria Margaretha Kirch, Dorothea Klumpke, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Henry Draper, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and August Kopff. After him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Mariam al-Asturlabi, George Biddell Airy, and Eugène Joseph Delporte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 11. Before him are Moses Mendelssohn, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, and Antonio Soler. After him are Johann Reinhold Forster, Giuseppe Sarti, Gaétan Vestris, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, and Anders Chydenius. Among people deceased in 1796, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 8. Before him are Robert Burns, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, James Macpherson, and Adolph Freiherr Knigge. After him are Thomas Reid, Shahrokh Shah, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, and François de Charette.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 341 out of 1,694. Before him are Barbara Brylska (1941), Casimir Pulaski (1745), Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785), Leopold Infeld (1898), Roman Dmowski (1864), and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699). After him are Fritz Gerlich (1883), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), and Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 6. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Robert Luther (1822), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793). After him are Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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