- Hermann Struve
Karl Hermann Struve (
October 3 1854 –August 12 1920 ) was aBaltic German astronomer born inSaint Peterburg ,Russian Empire , part of the famous Struve family of astronomers. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве); however, he spent much of the latter part of his career inGermany .He was less well-known than his famous grandfather
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve or his fatherOtto Wilhelm von Struve or his nephewOtto Struve . His brother wasLudwig Struve . Unlike other members of his family, he moved back toGermany fromRussia and spent most of his career there.He obtained his Ph.D. at the
University of Dorpat in 1882 and joined the staff ofPulkovo Observatory , studying the satellites of Saturn among other things. He succeeded his fatherOtto Wilhelm von Struve as the senior astronomer in 1890. However in 1895 he retired and returned to Germany, becoming director ofKönigsberg Observatory . From 1904 until his death inBad Herrenalb he was director of theBerlin-Babelsberg Observatory .He won the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1903.The
asteroid 768 Struveana was named jointly in his honour and that ofOtto Wilhelm von Struve andFriedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve .
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