Friedrich Karl Ginzel (26 February 1850, Reichenberg, Bohemia - 29 June 1926, Berlin) was an Austrian astronomer. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Liberec ( pronounced, Reichenberg Romany: Libertsis) has been since 1918 a City in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in the Czech Republic Bohemia (Čechy; Bohemia Czechy is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena [1] [2]
From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in Vienna. Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. In 1886 he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in classical antiquity. [3] His three-volume Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (1906-14; reprinted in 1958 and 2007) is still a standard work on calendars and ancient chronology although some sections are now outdated.
The lunar crater Ginzel was named after him. Ginzel is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb
References
- ^ P.V. Neugebauer, "Friedrich Karl Ginzel", Astronomische Nachrichten, 228 (1926), 335-336.
- ^ "F.K. Ginzel", The Observatory, 49 (1926), 348.
- ^ F. K. Ginzel, Spezieller Kanon der Sonnen- und Mondfinsternisse fur das Landergebiet der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften und dem Zeitraum von 900 vor Chr. bis 600 nach Chr. (Berlin: Mayer & Muller, 1899).
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