Miklós Konkoly-Thege

Miklós Konkoly - Thege ( born January 20, 1842 in Pest, † February 17, 1916 in Budapest) was a Hungarian astronomer and is considered the founder of modern astronomy in Hungary.

Miklós Konkoly - Thege came from a landowning nobility family. He studied physics and astronomy at the universities of Budapest and Berlin. In 1863, after completing his studies, he went on a trip to Europe to visit the then famous observatories in Europe in Greenwich, Paris, Heidelberg and Göttingen.

In 1870, he traveled once more through Europe to not only the observatories, but in Germany and the UK, the most important manufacturers of astronomical instruments seek of that time, as Sigmund Merz in Munich and T. Cooke & Sons, York.

In 1871 he built a small telescope on the balcony of his castle in Ógyalla to perform astronomical observations can. He soon took further plans, such as the establishment of a school for Astronomy in Hungary, a country where at that time there was not a single observatory.

In 1874, he left his castle in the park an observatory built with two domes. This staggered him with his staff in a position to carry out research on the contemporary state of the art. Your observations and research results they published in the journal observations made ​​at the Astrophysical Observatory in Ógyalla, which they performed in a lively exchange with a number of other research institutes in other countries.

In the following years he published a number of books, but also had to realize that he could not fund the Institute on a permanent basis from its own resources and maintained. After years of negotiations, he finally surrendered on May 16, 1899 his observatory at the Hungarian State. By investing the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, the Institute continued to grow, and Miklós Konkoly - Thege remained its director until his death in 1916.

The original seat of the Observatory is now in the Slovak Hurbanovo. The Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is now called Konkoly Observatory and is located in Budapest (XII district) in the eponymous Konkoly - Thege Miklós út.

Publications

  • Practical guide to employment astronomical observations with special reference to astrophysics, in addition to a modern instrument customer. Braunschweig, 1883
  • Practical guide to sky photography together with a concise guide to modern photographic operation and the Spectral photograph in the Cabinet. Hall, 1887
  • Handbook for Spectroscopiker in the Cabinet and on the telescope. Hall, 1890
  • Description of the beginning of 1908 until the end of 1911 on the astrophysical observatory newly purchased domesticated and produced instruments and apparatus. Budapest, 1912
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