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Wilhelm von Biela

1782 - 1856

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Baron Wilhelm von Biela (German: Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela; March 19, 1782 – February 18, 1856) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. Wilhelm von Biela was born in Roßla, Harz (Northern Germany). He was a descendant of a prominent Protestant noble family originally from what is now the Czech Republic, the family having been exiled to Saxony after its head, Friedrich von Biela, was executed in Prague in 1621 during the religious wars of the period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm von Biela has received more than 14,859 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Wilhelm von Biela is the 240th most popular astronomer (down from 196th in 2019), the 2,903rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,323rd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm von Biela ranks 240 out of 531Before him are Adriaan Blaauw, Rudolph Minkowski, Didier Queloz, Halton Arp, James Edward Keeler, and Johannes Schöner. After him are Iosif Shklovsky, Cleostratus, Freimut Börngen, Nevil Maskelyne, Josep Comas i Solà, and Fred Lawrence Whipple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Wilhelm von Biela ranks 27Before him are Pierre Berthier, Robert Morrison, Princess Marie of Baden, Eugène de Mazenod, Esaias Tegnér, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are Alexander von Benckendorff, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Orest Kiprensky, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Pōmare II, and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer. Among people deceased in 1856, Wilhelm von Biela ranks 31Before him are Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, William Buckland, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Karel Havlíček Borovský, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet. After him are Emil Aarestrup, Vicente López y Planes, Henry Pottinger, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Agostino Bassi, and Lev Perovski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm von Biela ranks 2,903 out of 6,142Before him are Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Lina Radke (1903), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), Werner Egk (1901), and Sonja Ziemann (1926). After him are Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Anne Buydens (1919), Werner March (1894), Ernst May (1886), Adolf Erman (1854), and Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm von Biela ranks 42Before him are Johannes Fabricius (1587), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), and Johannes Schöner (1477). After him are Freimut Börngen (1930), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Otto Lesser (1830), Franz Kaiser (1891), and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765).