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Otto Lesser

1830 - 1887

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Otto Leberecht Lesser (16 October 1830 – 12 August 1887) was a German astronomer who co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Wilhelm Julius Foerster on September 14, 1860 at the Berlin Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Lesser has received more than 7,075 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Lesser is the 289th most popular astronomer (down from 233rd in 2019), the 3,319th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,673rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Lesser ranks 289 out of 531. Before him are John Machin, Frank Watson Dyson, André-Louis Danjon, Benjamin Baillaud, Raymond Smith Dugan, and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres. After him are Hermann von Struve, Aleksander Wolszczan, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Wilhelm Gliese, and Maurice Loewy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Otto Lesser ranks 47. Before him are Grigor Parlichev, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ivan Larionov, Henry Peach Robinson, Karl Christian Bruhns, and Mehmed Said Pasha. After him are Marianne North, Harriet Lane, Clémence Royer, Kálmán Tisza, Gustav Lange, and Juan Manuel Blanes. Among people deceased in 1887, Otto Lesser ranks 32. Before him are J. C. Jacobsen, Moritz Wagner, Emma Lazarus, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, August Friedrich Pott, and Lysander Spooner. After him are August von Werder, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Alvan Clark, and Peter Jan Beckx.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 3,319 out of 6,142. Before him are John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866), and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719). After him are Walter Burkert (1931), Heike Makatsch (1971), Reinhard Marx (1953), Greta Schröder (1891), John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1677), and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 46. Before him are Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), and Karl Christian Bruhns (1830). After him are Franz Kaiser (1891), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christine Kirch (1697), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835).

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