Friedrich Karl Ginzel

Who was Friedrich Karl Ginzel?

Friedrich Karl Ginzel was an Austrian astronomer.

From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in Vienna. In 1886 he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899.

In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in classical antiquity. His three-volume Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie is still a standard work on calendars and ancient chronology although some sections are now outdated.

The lunar crater Ginzel was named after him.