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Wilhelm Julius Foerster

1832 - 1921

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Wilhelm Julius Foerster (16 December 1832 – 18 January 1921) was a German astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Julius Foerster has received more than 21,427 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Wilhelm Julius Foerster is the 335th most popular astronomer (down from 327th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from Poland (down from 761st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 335 out of 644. Before him are Jing Fang, Alvan Clark, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Geminiano Montanari, Raymond Smith Dugan, and Elia Millosevich. After him are Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Didier Queloz, Benjamin Markarian, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Daniel Kirkwood, and Adriaan van Maanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 62. Before him are Edwin Arnold, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Colin Archer, and Pavel Chistyakov. After him are Sergey Botkin, Miroslav Tyrš, Max Lange, Mary Edwards Walker, Larin Paraske, and Lina Sandell. Among people deceased in 1921, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 86. Before him are Andrea Carlo Ferrari, August Nilsson, Max Noether, François Hennebique, Colin Archer, and José Miguel Gómez. After him are Yosef Haim Brenner, Sándor Wekerle, Alexandre Michon, Dimitrios Rallis, Žemaitė, and Gyula Breyer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 797 out of 1,694. Before him are Gustav Radde (1831), Friedrich Schulz (1897), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Erika Steinbach (1943), Carl Tausig (1841), and Józef Chełmoński (1849). After him are Stanisław Staszic (1755), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Johann Dzierzon (1811), Ida Siekmann (1902), Joanna Pacuła (1957), and Marek Belka (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 11. Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), and Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561). After him are Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Adalbert Krueger (1832), and Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903).

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