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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

1825 - 1884

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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (25 October 1825 in Eutin, Germany – 7 February 1884 in Athens, Greece) was a German astronomer and geophysicist. He was the director of the National Observatory of Athens in Greece from 1858 to 1884. Julius Schmidt was tireless in his work, it was suggested by William Henry Pickering that he perhaps devoted more of his life than any other man to the study of the Moon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt has received more than 25,219 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt is the 443rd most popular astronomer (down from 354th in 2019), the 4,608th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,774th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 443 out of 644. Before him are Dilhan Eryurt, Odette Bancilhon, Jill Tarter, Gottfried Kirch, Warren De la Rue, and Brian Schmidt. After him are Zinaida Aksentyeva, Henry L. Giclas, Willem Jacob Luyten, Kees de Jager, Edward Pigott, and Horace W. Babcock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 68. Before him are Francesco Faà di Bruno, August von Pelzeln, Domenico Agostini, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pashko Vasa, and E. Marlitt. After him are Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, George Inness, Anton Heinrich Springer, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Adelaide Anne Procter, and Giuseppe Prinzi. Among people deceased in 1884, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 61. Before him are Buenaventura Báez, Daniel Harrwitz, Heinrich Göppert, Alfred Francis Russell, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and Judah P. Benjamin. After him are Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Menyhért Lónyay, Heinrich Laube, Tomás Frías, Quintino Sella, and George Engelmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 4,608 out of 7,253. Before him are Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Jürgen Pommerenke (1953), E. Marlitt (1825), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Anita Rée (1885), and Kurt Ahrens Jr. (1940). After him are Tankred Dorst (1925), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Francis Buchholz (1954), Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704), Rudolf Scharping (1947), and Otto Modersohn (1865).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt ranks 68. Before him are Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), and Gottfried Kirch (1639). After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Heinrich Kreutz (1854), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934).

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