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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 19,481 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Julius Foerster is the 327th most popular astronomer (down from 273rd in 2019), the 761st most popular biography from Poland (down from 638th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 327 out of 531. Before him are Geminiano Montanari, Johann III Bernoulli, Luigi Carnera, Carl Gustav Witt, James Craig Watson, and Alvan Clark. After him are Frank Muller, Philippe van Lansberge, Jing Fang, Cyril Jackson, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, and Holger Thiele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 58. Before him are Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Jules Vallès, Charilaos Trikoupis, Mary Edwards Walker, Johann Joseph Abert, and Lina Sandell. After him are Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Leslie Stephen, Pavel Chistyakov, Sergey Botkin, Max Lange, and Caroline Harrison. Among people deceased in 1921, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 85. Before him are Franz Defregger, José Miguel Gómez, Max Noether, Virginia Rappe, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, and Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. After him are Žemaitė, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Lev Chernyi, Sándor Wekerle, Alexandre Michon, and Dimitrios Rallis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 761 out of 1,454. Before him are Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Władysław Grabski (1874), Juliusz Kossak (1824), Karol Borsuk (1905), and Eugen Schüfftan (1893). After him are Hermann Boehm (1884), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Edward Lasker (1885), Henner Henkel (1915), Nikifor (1895), and Stanislaus Papczyński (1631).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Wilhelm Julius Foerster ranks 10. Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Robert Luther (1822), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), and Wilhelm Gliese (1915). After him are Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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