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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 36,855 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Daniel Titius is the 127th most popular astronomer (up from 143rd in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Poland (up from 354th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 127 out of 531. Before him are Ali Qushji, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Hermann Goldschmidt, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Maslama al-Majriti, and Nikolai Chernykh. After him are John Russell Hind, Robert Luther, Annibale de Gasparis, Harlow Shapley, Walter Sydney Adams, and Maria Margaretha Kirch.

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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, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Antonio Soler. After him are Giuseppe Sarti, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Florian Leopold Gassmann, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Pierre André de Suffren. Among people deceased in 1796, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 8. Before him are Robert Burns, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, James Macpherson, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Shahrokh Shah. After him are Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Thomas Reid, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, and Franz Anton Maulbertsch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 321 out of 1,454. Before him are Józef Elsner (1769), Bolesław V the Chaste (1226), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), and Ernst Wilimowski (1916). After him are Otto Mueller (1874), Stefan Czarniecki (1599), Robert Luther (1822), Yisrael Kristal (1903), Maria Szymanowska (1789), and Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Johann Daniel Titius ranks 5. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793). After him are Robert Luther (1822), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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