Friedrich Karl Ginzel

Friedrich Karl Ginzel ( born February 26, 1850 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, † June 29, 1926 in Berlin) was an Austrian astronomer.

Friedrich Karl Ginzel was from 1877 observer at the observatory Theodor Oppolzer in Vienna. In 1886 he became a member of the Royal Astronomical Calculation Institute of the Berlin Observatory, where he got a professorship in 1899. In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in ancient times. Thereafter he devoted himself especially to the chronology. His three-volume Handbook of mathematical and technical chronology ( 1906-14 ) is still an unsurpassed standard work for calendar and ancient chronology, although some chapters are outdated.

The lunar crater Ginzel was named after him.

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Writings

• About changes to the fixed stars: Lecture, held on 4 January 1886, the Scientific Club of Vienna. Richter, Hamburg 1886 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
• Handbook of mathematical and technical chronology / dargest. by F. K. Ginzel: Volume I: Era of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mohammedans, Persians, Indians, Southeast Asians, Chinese, Japanese and Central Americans (page scans)
• Volume II: chronology of the Jews, of primitive peoples, the Greeks and Romans, as well as supplements to the first volume ( full text )
• III. Band: chronology of the Macedonians, Kleinasier and Syrians, the Germans and Celts, the Middle Ages, the Byzantines ( and Russians ), Armenians, Copts, Abyssinians era of modern times, as well as any supplements to the three volumes (page scans)