Karl L. Littrow

Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow (18 July 1811 – 16 November 1877) was an Austrian astronomer.

Karl Ludwig Littrow, 1846

Born in Kazan, Russian Empire, he was the son of astronomer Joseph Johann Littrow. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at the University of Krakow in 1832. In 1842 he succeeded his father as director of the Vienna Observatory. Under his leadership, construction of a new observatory began in Währing in 1872; he died, however, prior to its completion.[1] He was the husband of Auguste von Littrow.

He died in Venice, Italy.

He is the great-great-grandfather of Roman Catholic Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.

Publications
  • Beitrag zu einer Monographie des Halleyschen Cometen, (1834) – Monograph on Halley's comet.
  • Verzeichnis geographischer Ortsbestimmungen, (1844) – Directory of geographical localizations.
  • Die Wunder des Himmels : gemeinverständliche Darstellung des astronomischen Weltbildes, (1854) – The wonders of the heavens; a common understanding of the astronomical world image.
  • Physische Zusammenkünfte der Planeten, (1859).

He made contributions to a new edition of Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's Physikalisches wörterbunch.[2]

gollark: Markov chains are a HIGHLY simple algorithm, and so quite fast.
gollark: POV: you are on the orbital bee laser station, orbitally bee lasing people.
gollark: In the UK, bathrooms only have two-pin sockets for shaving things or whatever, while everywhere else has the highly "based" British plug sockets.
gollark: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429430v2
gollark: There was a cool paper recently on reconstructing eye input from fMRI scans.

References
  1. Littrow, Karl Ludwig von Austria Forum
  2. Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's Physikalisches wörterbunch OCLC WorldCat


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