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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 7,705 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Otto Lesser is the 295th most popular astronomer (down from 289th in 2019), the 3,471st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,316th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Otto Lesser ranks 295 out of 644. Before him are Albert George Wilson, Caterina Scarpellini, Rudolph Minkowski, Zdeňka Vávrová, Iosif Shklovsky, and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin. After him are Walter Lewin, Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, Robert T. A. Innes, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, and Edwin Ernest Salpeter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Otto Lesser ranks 46. Before him are Luigi Cremona, Kamehameha V, Harriet Lane, Mehmed Said Pasha, Kálmán Tisza, and Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Karl Christian Bruhns, Marianne North, Jhalkaribai, Ivan Larionov, Grigor Parlichev, and Gustav Lange. Among people deceased in 1887, Otto Lesser ranks 32. Before him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad. After him are Lysander Spooner, August von Werder, Moritz Wagner, Peter Jan Beckx, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, and Emma Lazarus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 3,471 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Reinecke (1872), Emanuel Leutze (1816), Jacques Loeb (1859), Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602), Judith Malina (1926), and Karl Bartos (1952). After him are Alfred Abel (1879), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Albrecht Brandi (1914), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), Daniel Steibelt (1765), and Willibald Pirckheimer (1470).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Otto Lesser ranks 45. Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Wilhelm Beer (1797), Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), and Freimut Börngen (1930). After him are Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Franz Kaiser (1891), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Christine Kirch (1697), Joseph Helffrich (1890), and Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835).

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