Oswald Lohse

Wilhelm Oswald Lohse ( born February 13, 1845 in Leipzig, † May 14, 1915 in Potsdam ) was a German astronomer.

Lohse was the son of a master craftsman in Leipzig. After attending schools in Leipzig he went to the Polytechnic in Dresden. Later he moved to the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1865.

In 1870, he worked as an assistant to Hermann Carl Vogel at the private observatory Bothkamp the Chamberlain von Bülow at Kiel. Here he worked on spectroscopy and astrophotography.

In 1874, he followed, together with bird, a call to the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (now Astrophysical Institute Potsdam ), which was not yet completed at this time. In the meantime, he worked at the Berlin Observatory. 1877, the observatory of the Potsdam Institute was put into operation. 1882 Lohse was promoted to the " Observer ", later the " Hauptobservator ".

Lohse led in particular by observations of the planets Mars and Jupiter and prepared a detailed map of Mars. In addition, he observed double stars, which he published in 1909 a treatise. He led spectroscopic studies of stars, in which he compared the spectrum of the star with the spectral lines of metals, which he proposed this laboratory to emit light.

Lohse died in 1915 after a long illness in Potsdam.

In his memory, the crater Lohse were named on Mars on the Earth's moon and Lohse after him.