Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs
Astronomer
1912 – 1954
Who was Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs?
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars.
Eva Rohlfs was born in Coburg. She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933. After nine years of withdrawal into family life, she studied from 1942 until the end of the Second World War at the University of Göttingen. From 1945, she worked closely with professor Cuno Hoffmeister as an assistant astronomer at the Sonneberg Observatory. In 1951, she received a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Jena. At Sonneberg Observatory Eva Rohlfs met the astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert and they were married in 1952.
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs died at the age of 41 in Sonneberg.
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- Born
- Aug 11, 1912
Coburg - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 9, 1954
Sonneberg
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on July 23, 2013
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