Edmund Weiss

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Austrian astronomer

Places

Austria

was

Astronomer Educator

Work field

Academia Science

Gender

Male

Birth

26 August 1837 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Jeseník

Death

21 June 1917 People who died on this day

Place of death

Vienna

Age

79 years

Family

Spouse:

Adelinda Weiss

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Biography

Edmund Weiss (August 26, 1837 – June 21, 1917) was an Austrian astronomer.
He was born in Frývaldov, Austrian Silesia, now Jeseník, Czech Silesia. In 1869 he became a professor at the University of Vienna. He was named the director of the Vienna observatory in 1878. He also served as president of the Austrian österreichischen Gradmessungskommission, the degree measurement commission.
He published a number of comet observations and emphemeris' in the Astronomische Nachrichten between 1859 and 1909. In 1892 he published "Atlas der Sternwelt", a German language astronomy atlas.
Weiss died in Vienna. The crater Weiss on the Moon is named after him.

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