Richard Schorr
Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr ( born August 20, 1867 in Kassel, † September 21, 1951 in Bad Gastein, Austria ) was a German astronomer.
Life
Schorr studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Technical University of Munich and then received in 1889 a position as assistant in the editorial office of the Astronomische Nachrichten, Kiel. After two years he became assistant to the first public observatory Karlsruhe, a little later to the Astronomical rake Institute in Berlin, which was still part of the Berlin Observatory.
The then director of the Hamburger Sternwarte, George Rümker, took Schorr 1892 as Observer to Hamburg. Rümker, which had begun at that time just to move the observatory to Hamburg -Bergedorf suffered for years from severe gout and died in 1900, so that Schorr had to move away and run to the end. Also administrative things was done by Schorr in representation, so that the observatory was in fact passed the end of the 19th century through him.
Richard Schorr was officially appointed in 1902 as director of the Hamburg -Bergedorf Observatory, where he discovered among other things, two asteroids. In 1919 he was appointed a full professor at the University of Hamburg.
Schorr's astronomical interest was mainly astrometry. He initiated several large star catalog programs at the Hamburg Observatory:
A second area of interest were eclipse events. Schorr paid several expeditions to total solar eclipses from:
Schorr also managed to win the Astro optician Bernhard Schmidt to the Hamburg Observatory and to grant him a free space for the development of new techniques telescope. Schmidt invented while the Schmidt telescope.
When the Nazis took power in Germany, Schorr dean of the University of Hamburg and 65 years was old and had to give up his functions. In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state.
As his successor at the observatory itself Schorr wished the working in the U.S. Walter Baade, who canceled after much hesitation. As a replacement for Baade Schorr made sure to bring Otto Heckmann against the resistance of the NSD federal government to the observatory, in 1941 his successor took.
In recognition of his work, the asteroid ( 1235 ) Schorria was named after him; His wife was named after the asteroid ( 725 ) Amanda. The moon crater Schorr is named after him.
Swell
- Homepage and archive images of the AIP
- Report on the Hamburg Observatory, Bergedorf