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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 73,668 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Maximilian Hell is the 195th most popular astronomer (down from 145th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Astronomer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maximilian Hell ranks 195 out of 531. Before him are Yrjö Väisälä, Francis Baily, Bertil Lindblad, Jean Fernel, Joel Hastings Metcalf, and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi. After him are Mariam al-Asturlabi, Otto Struve, Edward Walter Maunder, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and James Dunlop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Maximilian Hell ranks 17. Before him are Charles Bonnet, Heraclius II of Georgia, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Hyder Ali, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. After him are Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Balaji Baji Rao, and Charles De Geer. Among people deceased in 1792, Maximilian Hell ranks 22. Before him are Legall de Kermeur, Jacques Cazotte, Denis Fonvizin, Antonio Rosetti, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and Antoine Louis. After him are Guillaume Le Gentil, John Paul Jones, Johann Andreas Stein, John Smeaton, Yazid of Morocco, and René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Maximilian Hell ranks 69 out of 357. Before him are Jozef Adamec (1942), Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853), Bálint Balassi (1554), Stephan Endlicher (1804), Alajos Szokolyi (1871), and Robert Fico (1964). After him are Vladimír Clementis (1902), Martina Hingis (1980), Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1888), Štefan Tiso (1897), Artúr Görgei (1818), and Vladimír Dzurilla (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Slovakia

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

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