Friedrich Adolph August Struve [SEP] place of death
Friedrich Adolph August Struve
Friedrich Adolph August Struve (9 May 1781, Neustadt in Sachsen – 29 September 1840, Berlin) was a German pharmacist and balneologist.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle, then continued his education at Johann Peter Frank's clinic in Vienna. In 1803 he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Neustadt. Two years later, he acquired an apothecary shop in Dresden through marriage, and subsequently gave up his medical practice, choosing to devote his time to technical and
after Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, Otto Wilhelm and Hermann Struve) and the last received by Struves. The asteroid 768 Struveana was named in honor of Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Karl Hermann Struve; and a lunar crater was named for another 3 astronomers of the Struve family: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, Otto Wilhelm and Otto. The 82-inch telescope which Struve used in his research at McDonald Observatory was named after him in 1966, three years after his death, whereas the asteroid 2227 Otto Struve kept Struve's name