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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist.
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (born April 15, 1793, Altona, Den. [now in Germany]—died Nov. 23, 1864, St. Petersburg, Russia) was one of the greatest 19th-century astronomers and the first in a line of four generations of distinguished astronomers, who founded the modern study of binary stars. To avoid conscription by the Napoleonic ...
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. The German-born Russian astronomer and geodesist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) is noted for his observations of double stars and for the measurement of the meridional arc from the north coast of Norway to Ismail on the Danube.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864), professor of the Tartu University and the long-time head of the University’s astronomy observatory, systematised the results of the selected measurements of the fragments of the triangulation networks for calculating the meridian’s Arcand described them in a final report, Arc du Méridien de ...
Last month (April 15) was the 206th birthday of Frederich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (also known as Vasily Yakovlevich). He was an expert on double stars and one of the first astronomers to measure stellar parallax.
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Struve became ordinary professor and director of the observatory in 1820, following Huth's death. At that time, an astronomer's duties included surveying and geodetic work. Struve was active in a survey of Livland (much of modern Estonia and Latvia) in the years 1816–1818.
