Alfred Bohrmann

Who was Alfred Bohrmann?

Alfred Bohrmann was a German astronomer.

He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1927 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg.

At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery by Max Wolf and Karl Reinmuth and others, and during his time there Bohrmann discovered a number of asteroids.

Bohrmann worked at the observatory from 1924 to 1958. He left the observatory after a dispute with the higher authority. The asteroid 1635 Bohrmann is named after him.