CARL See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

LUDWIG See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• CARL LUDWIG CHRISTIAN RUMKER (1788—1862)

RUMKER (1788—1862)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• MECKLENBURG

Mecklenburg on the 28th of May 1788 . He served in the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• NAVY

navy from 1807 until 1817, and was director of the school of See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg from 1819 till 1820 . In 1821 he went to New See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales as astronomer at the See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory built at See also:

• PARRAMATTA

Parramatta by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• BRISBANE
• BRISBANE, SIR THOMAS MAKDOUGALL

Brisbane . He returned to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe in 1830 and took See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of the observatory at Hamburg . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORK

work was concerned with the cataloguing of stars: a preliminary See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of the stars of the S. hemisphere was published in 1832 at Hamburg, and in 1846—52 he published his See also:

• GREAT

great catalogue of 12,000 stars . In 1857 he went to reside at See also:

• LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon, where he died on the 21st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1862 . His son, See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1832—1900), born on the 31st of December 1832, at Hamburg, was astronomer at the observatory at See also:

• DURHAM
• DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

Durham, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, from 1853 to 1856 . He then became assistant at the Hamburg observatory, and in 1862 was appointed director of the same institution . From 1884 he was the Hamburg delegate for the See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

Earth Measurement . He died on the 3rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1900 .