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Richard Schorr

1867 - 1951

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Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr (20 August 1867, Kassel – 21 September 1951, Badgastein, Salzburg), was a German astronomer who served as the director of the Hamburger Stemwarte at the end of the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Schorr has received more than 13,206 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Richard Schorr is the 401st most popular astronomer (down from 400th in 2019), the 4,375th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,067th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Richard Schorr ranks 401 out of 644. Before him are Marcel Minnaert, Julius Schiller, Friedrich Tietjen, Marguerite Laugier, Vladimir Kotelnikov, and Paris Pişmiş. After him are Harry Edwin Wood, Paul W. Merrill, Lyudmila Karachkina, Frank Elmore Ross, Ludwig Biermann, and Elizabeth Roemer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Richard Schorr ranks 114. Before him are Chris Watson, Max Dessoir, Léon Delacroix, Carmen de Burgos, György Almásy, and Manuel Portela Valladares. After him are Charles Winckler, Vintilă Brătianu, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., and Harold Mahony. Among people deceased in 1951, Richard Schorr ranks 128. Before him are Anna Tumarkin, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Pamela Colman Smith, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Hasrat Mohani, and Leopold Andrian. After him are Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Nils Rosén, Levon Shant, Nora Barnacle, Will Keith Kellogg, and Fanny Brice.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Schorr ranks 4,375 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Bollé (1845), Georg von Habsburg (1964), August Diehl (1976), Ludwig Knorr (1859), Matthias Schweighöfer (1981), and Wilhelm Geiger (1856). After him are Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899), Else Krüger (1915), Maria Schrader (1965), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Hugo von Mohl (1805), and Berthold Delbrück (1842).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Richard Schorr ranks 60. Before him are Paul Götz (1883), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Julius Schiller (1580), and Friedrich Tietjen (1834). After him are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Cuno Hoffmeister (1892).

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