Ernst Friedrich Knorre
Mathematician, Astronomer
1759 – 1810
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Who was Ernst Friedrich Knorre?
Ernst Christoph Friedrich Knorre was a German-born astronomer who lived and worked in present-day Estonia as a founding professor of mathematics at the Universität Dorpat and chief observator for the Dorpat Observatory. His son Karl Friedrich Knorre and grandson Viktor Knorre were also notable astronomers. Recently NASA named an asteroid in honor of the three generations of Knorre astronomers.
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- Born
- 1759
Haldensleben - Children
- Profession
- Education
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Died
- Dec 1, 1810
Tartu
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on July 23, 2013
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