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HERMANN See also: German painter and astronomer, was the son of a Jewish See also: merchant, and was See also: born at See also: Frankfort on the 17th of See also: June 1802
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He for ten years assisted his See also: father in his business; but, his love of See also: art having been awakened while journeying in See also: Holland, he in 1832 began the study of
See also: painting at See also: Munich under Cornelius and Schnorr, and in 1836 established himself at See also: Paris, where he painted a number of pictures of more than See also: average merit, among which may be mentioned the " Cumaean Sibyl " (1844); an " Offering to
See also: Venus " (1845); a " View of See also: Rome " (1849); the " See also: Death of Romeo and Juliet " (1857); and several Alpine landscapes
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In 1847 he began to devote his See also: attention to astronomy; and from 1852 to 1861 he discovered fourteen asteroids between See also: Mars and See also: Jupiter, on which account he received the See also: grand astronomical prize from the See also: Academy of Sciences
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His observations of the protuberances on the See also: sun, made during the See also: total eclipse on the loth of See also: July 186o, are included in the See also: work of Madler on the eclipse, published in 1861
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See also: Goldschmidt died at See also: Fontainebleau on the 26th of See also: August 1866
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