KÄrlis Å teins
Karlis Šteins (Russian Карл Августович Штейнс, Karl Awgustowitsch Schtejns, scientific transliteration Karl Avgustovič Štejns; born October 13, 1911 in Kazan, Russia, † April 4, 1983 ) was a Latvian and Soviet astronomer.
1934 closed Šteins his astronomy studies at the University of Latvia in Riga from. 1935-1936 and 1938 he was at the observatory in Kraków active in 1937 at the Observatory of Copenhagen. Since 1944 Šteins worked at the University of Latvia, where he appointed director of the Observatory in 1959 and 1966 was a full professor.
Šteins was known for his work on cometary cosmogony, studied the Earth's rotation and was involved in the development of astronomical instruments. During his stay in Cracow, he calculated the orbit of the asteroid discovered in 1933 OP 1933, he baptized to Latvia Latvia. Shortly after his death, discovered in 1969 by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Asteroid ( 2867 ) Šteins was named after him.