Herman Schultz (astronomer)

Per Magnus Herman Schultz (7 July 1823, in Södermanland – 8 May 1890, in Stockholm) was a Swedish astronomer.[1]

Biography and Career

In 1878 Schultz became professor at Uppsala University and director of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. In 1873 he became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and joined the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1875.[2]

In 1860, he married Charlotte Klara Amlie Steinheil, daughter of astronomer Carl August von Steinheil. Over the course of his career, Schultz discovered 13 objects that were later listed in the New General Catalogue by John Louis Emil Dreyer.[3] NGC 18 is an example.

gollark: > You breed maybe once or twiceActually, I may just not have children, it seems inconvenient and annoying.
gollark: My inability to visually imagine things is really helpful on the internet, honestly!
gollark: This very long conversation maaaaay have not really gotten anywhere and created/exposed some large divisions in the server, but oh well.
gollark: > and thus define human breeding as an inherent functionAnyway, you seem to just be defining it as one, and I'm not sure what you're trying to say by that beyond that having children... is a thing we can do, and one which evolution selects for to some degree. That doesn't make it *the right thing to do* all the time.
gollark: Grow children in vacuum tubes then, but not vacuums.

References
  1. "Herman Schultz (1823-1890)". www.astro.uu.se. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  2. "1205-1206 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 24. Ryssläder - Sekretär)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1916. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  3. "Photos". www.klima-luft.de. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
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