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See also:JOSEPH See also:ANTHONY See also:PONIATOWSKI (1763-1813)
, See also:Polish He entered the See also:Marseilles See also:observatory in 1789, and in 1819 See also:prince and See also:marshal of See also:France, son of See also:Andrew See also:Poniatowski and the became the director of the new observatory at Marlia near countess See also:Theresa Kinsky, was See also:born at See also:Warsaw in 1763
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Adopt- See also:Lucca, which he, See also:left in 1825 for the observatory of the museum See also:ing a military career, he joined the Imperial See also:army when See also:Austria at See also:Florence
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Here he died on the 14th of See also:October 1831. declared See also:war against the See also:Turks in 1788, and distinguished Between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered See also:thirty-seven comets, one himself at the storming of Sabac on the 25th of See also:April, where of which (observed on the 26th of See also:November 1818) was named he was seriously wounded
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Recalled by his See also:uncle See also: See also:Soc. v . 410; R . See also:Wolf, Geschichte der and devoted himself zealously to the improvement of the Astronomie, p . 709; J . C . See also:Poggendorff, Biog. lit . Handworterbuch . |
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