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Heinrich Christian Schumacher
German-Danish astronomer (1780-1850)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 September 1780
- Died
- 28 December 1850
- Place of birth
- Bad Bramstedt
- Place of death
- Altona
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Heinrich
- Family name
- Schumacher
- Spouse
- Christine Schumacher
- Field of work
- astronomy, astronomical observatory, geodesy, mathematics, law
- Occupation
- astronomer, university teacher, mathematician, editor, jurist, geodesist, surveyor
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Holstein
- Awards
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, commander of the Order of the Dannebrog, Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog
- archives at
- Notebook of Heinrich Christian Schumacher (NAID 1772040), Q123602416, Berlin State Library, Kiel University Library
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Hamburg Biographies, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia, Heinrich Christian Schumacher [schumheinr028844], Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 1780–1850
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Carl Friedrich Gauss
- doctoral student
- Peter Andreas Hansen
- educated at
- University of Göttingen
- employer
- University of Copenhagen
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Heinrich Christian Schumacher
- place of burial
- Heilig-Geist-Kirchhof Altona
- student
- Thomas Clausen
- work location
- Mannheim, Copenhagen, Altona
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