Manfred Schukowski

Manfred Schukowski (16 January 1928 – 14 March 2025) was a German astronomer. He worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics at schools and teacher-training institutions. He authored books on astronomical clocks, including a textbook and an encyclopedia, and a book about the clock of St. Mary's Church in Rostock. He calculated a new calendar disc for it, running from 2018 to 2150.

Life Schukowski grew up in Stralsund where he was born and attended school from 1934 to 1944. In 1945, he became a sailor on the . After the Second World War, he worked as a Neulehrer, from 1946 at the central school in Koblentz and from 1947 to 1949 at the school in Negast. In 1948, he passed the first teacher's examination, and from 1949 to 1950 he took the subject course in mathematics/physics at the Diesterweg Institute for Teacher Training in Putbus. He passed the second teacher's examination in 1950 and was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Torgelow secondary school from 1950 to 1953. He then attended the special physics course at the Pädagogische Hochschule "Karl Liebknecht" in Potsdam for one year.

Schukowski was a research assistant and lecturer at the physics methodology department of the Pädagogische Hochschule Halle-Köthen from 1954 to 1959 and again from 1962 to 1965. In between, from 1959 to 1962, he was a teacher at the Gymnasium für deutsche Sprache, a secondary school in German, in Lovech, Bulgaria.

Work Schukowski published various works on the methodology of teaching physics and astronomy, as well as textbooks and numerous works on astronomical clocks in the Baltic region, including several books.

Die astronomische Uhr in St. Marien zu Rostock. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 2010, (with English summary) Wunderuhren in Kirchen: Astronomische Uhren in Kirchen der Hansezeit. Helms, Schwerin 2006, Astronomie, neue Rechtschreibung, textbook. Cornelsen 1999, Wissensspeicher: Astronomie, encyclopedia. Cornelsen 1995, Sonne, Mond und zwölf Apostel. Die Astronomische Uhr in der Marienkirche zu Rostock. Helms, Schwerin 2012,

Honours 1995 Kulturpreis der Hansestadt Rostock 2013 Ehrenbuch of Rostock 2013 Philipp Matthäus Hahn-Medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie 2015 Ehrenpreis of the 2021 Award for Denkmalpflege of Mecklenburg