Hermann Kobold

Hermann Kobold (* August 5, 1858 in Hanover, † June 11, 1942 in Kiel ) was a German astronomer and professor at the Strasbourg Observatory.

Hermann Albert Kobold was the third of five children of the carpenter August Puck and his wife Dorothea born thinker. From 1877 to 1880 he studied mathematics and science at the University of Göttingen and graduated in July 1880 with Wilhelm Klinkerfues on an astronomical topic. He then was an assistant at the private observatory of Nikolaus von Konkoly in O'Gyalla (Hungary). After taking part in an expedition to observe the transit of Venus of 1882 in Aiken (South Carolina ), he worked for several years at the data reduction in Berlin.

1887 Leprechaun was appointed as Observer at the Observatory in Strasbourg. Shortly after, he married Dorothea Brandt, with whom he had five children. In 1888 he became a Privatdozent in 1900 and associate professor at the University of Strasbourg; Two years later he went as Observer and associate professor at the University of Kiel. Through intensive observations to him the discovery of 22 previously unknown, smaller galaxies in the Coma cluster of galaxies succeeded.

From 1908 to 1938 he was the editor of the scientific journal Astronomische Nachrichten. His astronomical work dealing with stellar and with the objects of the solar system. He exhibited regularly together comet lists.

In his honor, was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth one in 1930, the name Asteroid ( 1164 ) Kobolda.

His grave is located at the Kiel South Cemetery.

Works

  • The construction of the fixed star system with special consideration of the photometric results. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1906
  • Leaves of memory ( autobiography to 1902 ). Journal of Astronomical Data, Volume 10, Part 5B ( 2004)
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