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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 FRANZ XAVER ZACH (1754-1832)  , German astronomer, was born at Pesth on the 4th of
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June 1754 . He served for some time in the
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Austrian army, and afterwards lived in
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London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the Saxon minister, Count Bruhl . In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II. of Saxe-
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Coburg-
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Gotha director of the new
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observatory on the Seeberg at Gotha, which was finished in 1791 . From 18o6 Zach accompanied the duke's widow on her travels in the south of
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Europe . He died in Paris on the 2nd of September 1832 . Zach published Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 1792; new and improved edition, ibid .. 1804), and numerous papers on
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geographical subjects, particularly on the geographical positions of many towns and places, which he determined on his travels with a
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sextant . His
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principal importance was, however, as editor of three scientific
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journals of
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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 (Genoa, 1818-26, 14 vols., and one number of the 15th suppressed at the instigation of the
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Jesuits) .

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