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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1793–1864)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 April 1793, 1793
- Died
- 23 November 1864, 1864
- Place of birth
- Altona
- Place of death
- Pulkovo, Saint Petersburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Friedrich
- Family name
- Struve
- Father
- Jacob Struve
- Mother
- Marianne Struve
- Spouse
- Emilie Wall, Johanna von Struve
- Child
- Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Conrad Struve, Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve, Charlotte Marie Wilhelmine Doellen, Bernhard Wilhelm von Struve, Olga von Struve, Karl von Struve, Ernst Struve, Nikolai Struve
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Occupation
- astronomer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Holstein, Russian Empire
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Royal Medal, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
- civil rank
- Privy Councillor
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference, Album Academicum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat
- doctoral advisor
- Georg Friedrich Parrot
- doctoral student
- Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer, Alexei Savich, Georg Sabler, Georg Albert Fuss
- educated at
- Imperial University of Dorpat
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- member of family
- Struve family
- name in native language
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
- place of burial
- Pulkovo Observatory cemetery
- topic's main category
- Category:Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
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