Edmund Weiss

Edmund White ( born August 26, 1837 in Freiwaldau, † June 21, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian astronomer.

Life

Weiss was the doctor's son Josef Weiss and his wife Josefa, born Much Hauer, and twin brother of Gustav Adolf Weiss (1837-1894), who would later act as Professor of Botany in Prague.

He spent his early years in England, near Richmond, where his father had built a hydrotherapy facility. After the father's death the family returned to Austria and from 1847 to 1855, he attended high school in Opava. Then he studied mathematics, astronomy and physics at the University of Vienna and in 1860 received his doctorate Dr. phil. Since 1858 he was an assistant at the Vienna University Observatory, its director Karl Ludwig von Littrow was. In 1869 he was appointed Honorary Professor in 1875 and Full Professor at the University of Vienna.

In connection with the construction of a new observatory at the University outside of Vienna White 1872 traveled to the USA with the aim to learn about observatories and instruments there.

As Littrow died before completion of the new observatory in 1878, White was his successor. Under his leadership, the two main instruments were procured and erected, in 1882, the 27- inch refractor by Grubb, at that time the largest refractor in the world, and the 11 ¾ - refractor of Alvan Graham Clark.

In 1872 he married Adelinde Fenzl (born 1845), with whom he had seven children. Until his retirement in 1910, he was Director of the University Observatory. On June 21, 1917, he died after a long illness at the age of 79 years.

Awards and honors

  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Dublin
  • Knight's Cross of the Franz- Joseph- Order
  • Councillor title
  • Appointment of Edmund White alley in the 18th district of Vienna Waehring (1918; formerly Spöttelgasse, his last residential address)

Writings

In addition to numerous articles that appeared mainly in the Astronomische Nachrichten, he also published popular writings. Among other things, he gave Joseph Johann von Littrows wonders of the heavens newly published, as well as an illustrated atlas of the world of stars. An astronomy for everyone ( 1888). He also was editor since 1878 of 17 volumes of the New Annals of the Observatory at Vienna - Waehring.

Other typefaces:

  • About the path of the Ariadne 43 (1858 ).
  • About the orbit of the comet VIII of the year 1858. (1859 ).
  • About the state of astronomy at the beginning of historical time. (1864 )
  • Calculation of solar eclipses in 1868 until 1870. (1867 ).
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the shooting stars. ( 1868-1870 ).
  • Discussion of employed during the total solar eclipse on August 10, 1868 observations and the consequent results. (1870 ).
  • Star charts from the northern and southern sky. (1874 ).
  • Observation of the Venus transit on 8 December 1874 in Jassy and determination of the longitude of the observation site. (1875 ).
  • About leaps, changes in individual Redactionselemente an instrument. ( 1878).
  • About the path of the comet 1843I and 1880a. (1881 ).
  • About the calculation of the differential coefficients of the true anomaly and the radius vector by the eccentricity in highly eccentric orbits. (1881 ).
  • Entwickelungen the Lagrangian Reversionstheorem, and applications thereof to the solution of the equation Keppler'schen '.' (1885 ).
  • The determination of M on Olbers method of calculation of a comet train, with special reference to the exception. ( 1886).
  • About the Oberflächenbeschaffentheit the planets of our solar system. (1891 ).
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