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BARON VON FRANZ XAVER ZACH (1754-1832)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON VON See also:FRANZ XAVER See also:ZACH (1754-1832)  , See also:German astronomer, was See also:born at Pesth on the 4th of See also:June 1754 . He served for some See also:time in the See also:Austrian See also:army, and afterwards lived in See also:London from 1783 to 1786 as See also:tutor in the See also:house of the Saxon See also:minister, See also:Count See also:Bruhl . In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II. of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg-See also:Gotha director of the new See also:observatory on the Seeberg at Gotha, which was finished in 1791 . From 18o6 See also:Zach accompanied the See also:duke's widow on her travels in the See also:south of See also:Europe . He died in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:September 1832 . Zach published Tables of the See also:Sun (Gotha, 1792; new and improved edition, ibid .. 1804), and numerous papers on See also:geographical subjects, particularly on the geographical positions of many towns and places, which he determined on his travels with a See also:sextant . His See also:principal importance was, however, as editor of three scientific See also:journals of See also:great value: Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden (4 vols., Gotha, 1798-99), Monatliche Correspondenz zur Beforderung der Erd- and Himmels-Kunde (28 vols., Gotha, 1800-13, from 1807 edited by B. von Lindenau), and Correspondance astronomique, geographique, hydrographique, et statistique (See also:Genoa, 1818-26, 14 vols., and one number of the 15th suppressed at the instigation of the See also:Jesuits) .

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