Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer (16 February 1816 – 6 July 1873) was a Swiss astronomer who travelled to Moscow in 1845 to become Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Survey Institute, and later director of the Moscow University Observatory.[1]
Schweizer was born in 1816 as the son of a pastor at Wila, Switzerland. In 1839, he went to Königsberg to assist Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. From 1841 to 1845 he worked at Pulkovo Observatory under Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Schweizer discovered five comets, and found one NGC object, NGC 7804, on 11 November 1864.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Rudolf Wolf. "XL: Erinnerungen an Heinrich Samuel Schwabe und Gottfried Schweizer" (PDF). Astronomische Mitteilungen – Sammlung der Sternwarte (152–184): 145.
External links
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer.
- Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer, Historische Lexikon der Schweiz
- Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer, obituary