Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz

astronomer

Date of Birth: 23-May-1822

Place of Birth: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1894

Profession: astronomer, geographer, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz

  • Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz (Julian, O.S.: 23 May 1822, Danzig-Gdansk – 17 September 1894; Gregorian, N.S.: 4 June 1822 - 29 September 1894, St.
  • George's?; Buried: Tartu) (referred to mostly as Ludwig Schwarz), was a Baltic German astronomer of Imperial Russia, explorer, and professor of astronomy at the University of Dorpat honored with the Konstantin Medal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
  • Schwarz also was a recipient of the Demidov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of St.
  • Petersburg in 1865 for his work in geodesy.

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