ERNST FRIEDRICH WILHELM KLINKERFUES

'Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues' (March 29 1827January 28 1884) was a German astronomer.
In 1851 he became an assistant to Carl Friedrich Gauss at Göttingen observatory. He got his Ph.D. in 1855. He became "director for practical astronomy" of the observatory in 1868.
In 1881 he published ''Tobias Mayer's grössere Mondkarte nebst Detailzeichnungen'', a large Moon map and set of drawings by Tobias Mayer that had gathered dust in the observatory library for 130 years. He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets.
The asteroid 112328 Klinkerfues is named in his honour. He died by suicide.

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AN '108' (1884) 65/66 (in German)

MNRAS '45' (1885) 203

Obs '7' (1884) 117

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