Friedrich Karl Ginzel [SEP] place of death
Friedrich Karl Ginzel
Friedrich Karl Ginzel (26 February 1850, Reichenberg, Bohemia - 29 June 1926, Berlin) was an Austrian astronomer.
From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in Vienna. In 1886, he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899.
In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in classical antiquity. His three-volume "Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie" (1906–14; reprinted in 1958 and 2007)
Ginzel (crater)
Ginzel is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is named after the Austrian astronomer Friedrich Karl Ginzel. It lies at the eastern edge of the Mare Marginis, in a region of the surface that is sometimes brought into sight of the Earth due to libration. To the north-northeast of Ginzel is the crater Popov, and Dreyer lies due south.
Much of the rim and interior of Ginzel have been flooded,