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Maximilian Hell

1720 - 1792

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Maximilian Hell (Hungarian: Hell Miksa) (born Rudolf Maximilian Höll; May 15, 1720 – April 14, 1792) was an astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maximilian Hell has received more than 79,906 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Maximilian Hell is the 234th most popular astronomer (down from 195th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maximilian Hell ranks 234 out of 644. Before him are Alexis Bouvard, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Nancy Roman, Wilhelm Beer, Adriaan Blaauw, and Wang Zhenyi. After him are Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Agrippa, Cleostratus, Johannes Schöner, Thomas Gold, and Guillaume Le Gentil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Maximilian Hell ranks 20. Before him are William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Hyder Ali, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Johann Friedrich Agricola, and Johann Schobert. After him are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Charles De Geer, Balaji Baji Rao, Justus Möser, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, and Gilbert White. Among people deceased in 1792, Maximilian Hell ranks 23. Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Legall de Kermeur, Denis Fonvizin, Antoine Louis, George Mason, and Johann Andreas Stein. After him are Antonio Rosetti, Guillaume Le Gentil, Yazid of Morocco, John Smeaton, John Burgoyne, and John Paul Jones.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Maximilian Hell ranks 78 out of 418. Before him are Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Štefan Tiso (1897), Jozef Vengloš (1936), Marián Čalfa (1946), Alajos Szokolyi (1871), and Anton Ondruš (1950). After him are Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), Marek Hamšík (1987), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), Andrej Kvašňák (1936), Artúr Görgei (1818), and Martina Hingis (1980).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Slovakia

Among astronomers born in Slovakia, Maximilian Hell ranks 1. After him are Ľudmila Pajdušáková (1916), Peter Kušnirák (1974), and Ulrika Babiaková (1976).

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