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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.
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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Apr 15, 2024 · Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, a German/Danish/Russian astronomer, was born Apr. 15, 1793. Struve became director of the Dorpat Observatory in Estonia (Dorpat is now known as Tartu) in 1820, where he mostly studied binary stars.
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.
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.
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