About Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger
Lived 1857 – 1923 (aged 65). Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger was a German surveyor and mathematician.
Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (21 September 1857 – 1 June 1923) was a German mathematician and surveyor/geodesist. He became director of the Prussian Geodetic Institute of Potsdam in 1917 and wrote several books on geodesy, operational and theoretical. In 1912, he presented his "Konforme Abbildung des Erdellipsoids in der Ebene", one of the works that led to the 1923 Gauss–Krüger map projection.
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German geodesist and mathematician (1857–1923)
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Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger was born on 21 September 1857 in Elze.
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Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger died on 1 June 1923 in Elze.
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Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger was a surveyor and mathematician.
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Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger was German.
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