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Otto Tetens
Otto Tetens (26 September 1865, Rendsburg, Germany – 15 February 1945, Teplitz-Schönau) was a German natural scientist with an astronomer background.
Life.
Tetens was the son of a high ranked police officer in Schleswig, Northern Germany. He went to several universities for different natural science topics in Tübingen, Munich, Berlin and Kiel.
After this period, he worked at the private astronomy observatory of Miklos Konkly-Thege in Ogyalla in Hungary.
In 1891 he got his Doctor
degree of Natural Science. He then worked at different institutes in astronomy such as the Deutsche Seewarte, Hamburg, and the Observatory of Strasbourg.
From 1902 to 1905 Otto Tetens worked for the Royal Society of Science of Göttingen on a climate project in Samoa, then a German colony. He founded the Apia Observatory in June 1902 at Mulinuu near the main town of Apia. After his time in Samoa, he went back to Germany and Göttingen to work on his reports for the previous three years and then took an occupation