Carl Bremiker [SEP] place of death
Carl Bremiker
Carl Bremiker (23 February 1804, Hagen, Westphalia – 26 March 1877, Berlin) was a German astronomer and geodesist.
First educated as a surveyor, Bremiker worked on the Rhenish-Westphalia survey until 1835. He earned a doctorate and was an assistant to Johann Franz Encke. On 26 October 1840 Bremiker discovered a comet, which is now designated as C/1840 U1 (Bremiker). For this discovery he won the Lalande Prize in 1840. He made entries and revisions for five of the star charts
from 1850 to 1877 an editor for the "Nautisches Jahrbuch" and also an editor for the French "Annuaire nautique". Bremiker was an Inspector of the Plan Room in the Prussian Ministry of Trade. From 1868 he was the Departmental Director of the Royal Prussian Geodetical Institute.
External links.
- publications by Carl Bremiker in Astrophysics Data System