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Otto Heckmann

1901 - 1983

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Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (June 23, 1901 – May 13, 1983) was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third issue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Heckmann has received more than 15,930 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Heckmann is the 363rd most popular astronomer (down from 362nd in 2019), the 3,859th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,538th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Heckmann ranks 363 out of 531. Before him are Milorad B. Protić, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Hervé Faye, Paul Götz, and Hendrik van Gent. After him are Marcel Minnaert, Christoph Arnold, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Dilhan Eryurt, Carl A. Wirtanen, and Peter van de Kamp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Heckmann ranks 201. Before him are Grete Hermann, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Claude Aveline, Frederick Loewe, Michael Oakeshott, and Paul Verhoeven. After him are Raymond Firth, Agostinho Fortes Filho, Haj Ali Razmara, Jan de Quay, Cecília Meireles, and Peter van de Kamp. Among people deceased in 1983, Otto Heckmann ranks 147. Before him are Larysa Hienijuš, Erich Juskowiak, Émile Veinante, Harry James, Oddbjørn Hagen, and Jorge Ibargüengoitia. After him are Gunnar Thoroddsen, James Jamerson, Neil Ritchie, Jānis Ivanovs, Gyula Lázár, and Adrian Boult.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Heckmann ranks 3,859 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Eugen Bolz (1881), Karl Hein (1908), Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1823), and Johann Benedict Listing (1808). After him are Reinhold Schünzel (1886), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Loki Schmidt (1919), Thomas Doll (1966), Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Otto Heckmann ranks 56. Before him are Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Gustav Spörer (1822), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), and Paul Götz (1883). After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Gottfried Kirch (1639), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Richard Schorr (1867), and Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853).

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