August Nathanael Grischow

August Nathaniel Grischow (Russian Августин Нафанаил Гришов; * September 29, 1726 in Berlin, † June 4, 1760 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German mathematician and astronomer.

Life

He was the son of the mathematician and meteorologist Augustin Grischow. From 1745 to 1749 was Augustin Nathanael Grischow director of the old Berlin Observatory. In 1749 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1750 he became a professor of optics at the Berlin Academy of Arts. Already in 1751 he gave up the position to become a professor of astronomy and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. There he was mainly concerned with the theory of parallax of heavenly bodies, particularly the moon.

Publications

• Methodus investigandi parallaxin lunae et planetarum.
• Observationes about longitudinem penduli simplices institutae. 1760