Johan Sigismund von Mösting

Johann (es) Sigismund of Mösting or Johan Sigismund Møsting (* November 2, 1759 on the island of Møn, † September 16, 1843 in Copenhagen) was a Danish nobleman and statesman in the service of the royal family.

After extensive training, he studied law in Copenhagen, was bailiff of the Office 1789 Haderslev, according to 1803 Head of the king's German office and became director in 1813 of the Danish Reichsbank. Later he headed the pension chamber and was until 1831 the Danish Minister of Finance, then Prime Minister. In 1838 he became head of the royal library.

Scientifically very interested, he founded in 1823 with the Hamburg Professor Heinrich Christian Schumacher even today the existing journal Astronomische Nachrichten. Narrated and a robust exchange of letters with personalities of his time, including with the Enlightenment towards open-minded Danish Crown Prince and later King Frederick VI. and with Duke Christian August of Schleswig -Holstein, as well as proposals for the appointment of various university professors. Since 1810, he was an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.

He was awarded the 1803 Dannebrogorden and 1815 with the elephant - Order.

In appreciation of his contribution to the astronomical exchange of information between lunar craters Mösting was named after him, whose exact circular craters Mösting A was the main point of the selenographic coordinate system.

Swell

  • Antonin Rükl: Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket Atlas of perigee celestial bodies, p.160/161, Artaria Publishing House, Prague 1977
  • German Biographical Adelsrepertorium, Mollendorff to mosquito
  • W.Dick, J.Hamel: Astronomy of Olbers to Schwarzschild - National developments and international relations in the 19th century, Frankfurt / Vienna 2002 ( p.108 -128 )
  • Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Astr.Nachrichten (PDF, 1.3 MB)
  • Minister of Finance (Denmark)
  • Prime Minister (Denmark)
  • Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
  • Carrier of Dannebrogordens
  • Carrier of the elephant - Order
  • Dane
  • Born in 1759
  • Died in 1843
  • Man
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