About Karl Friedrich Küstner
Lived 1856 – 1936 (aged 79–80). Karl Friedrich Küstner was a German astronomer.
Karl Friedrich Küstner (born in Görlitz on 22 August 1856, died 15 October 1936) was a German astronomer who also made contributions to Geodesy. In 1888, he reportedly discovered the Polar motion of the Earth. In 1910, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for cataloguing stars and detecting latitude variation.
He received his PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1879 under Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.
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German astronomer (1856–1936)
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Karl Friedrich Küstner was born in 1856 in Görlitz.
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Karl Friedrich Küstner died on 15 October 1936 in Mehlem.
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Karl Friedrich Küstner was an astronomer.
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Karl Friedrich Küstner was German.
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