Luís Cruls, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luís Cruls

astronomer

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1848

Place of Birth: Diest, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1908

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Luíz Cruls or Luís Cruls or Louis Ferdinand Cruls (21 January 1848 – 21 June 1908) was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist.
He was Director of the Brazilian National Observatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission charged with the survey and selection of a future site for the capital of Brazil in the Central Plateau, and was co-discoverer of the Great Comet of 1882.
Cruls was also an active proponent of efforts to accurately measure solar parallax and towards that end led a Brazilian team in their observations of 1882 Transit of Venus in Punta Arenas, Chile.