Franz Xaver Kugler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German academic
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Place of Birth: Königsbach an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Franz Xaver Kugler
- For other people named Franz Kugler, see Franz Kugler.Franz Xaver Kugler (27 November 1862 – 25 January 1929) was a German chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest.Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- He earned a Ph.D.
- in chemistry in 1885, and the following year he entered the Jesuits.
- By 1893 he had been ordained as a priest.
- Four years later at the age of 35, he became a professor of Mathematics at Ignatius-College in Valkenburg in the Netherlands.He is most noted for his studies of cuneiform tablets and Babylonian astronomy.
- He worked out the Babylonian theories on the Moon and planets, which were published in 1907.
- However his full work on Babylonian astronomy was never completed, with only three volumes out of a planned five published. He died in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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