Hermann Struve

Karl Hermann Struve (born 21 Septemberjul / October 3 1854greg in Pulkovo in St Petersburg, .. † August 12, 1920 in Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest ) was a Baltic German astronomer and mathematician.

Life

Struve was the son of the astronomer Otto Struve and the brother of the astronomer Ludwig von Struve.

In 1872, Struve studied at the University of Dorpat ( now Tartu in Estonia) mathematics and astronomy. After this study he got a job in 1877 at the Observatory in Pulkovo. From here he went to further studies in Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin and Graz, and completed these studies in 1882 with a doctorate in Dorpat from.

Beginning of the following year Struve was appointed auxiliary of Pulkovo astronomers. In 1890 his promotion to senior astronomers. In 1895 he was offered a professorship at the University of Königsberg and was appointed in the same year as head of the Königsberg Observatory.

Struve 1903 was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1904 he accepted the office of Director of the Berlin Observatory. Under his leadership, this has been greatly expanded and relocated in 1913 to Babelsberg. In 1904 he was awarded the title go. Awarded Government. The Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin took him on as a full member, from 1911 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

The still valid today 's theory of motion of the satellites of Saturn goes back to Hermann von Struve.

In mathematics, the Struve function is named after him.

The astronomer Georg von Struve was his son.