Per Collinder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Per Collinder

Swedish astronomer

Date of Birth: 22-May-1890

Place of Birth: Sundsvall, Västernorrland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1974

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Per Collinder (22 May 1890 – 6 December 1974) was a Swedish astronomer.
Born at Sundsvall, he is known for a catalog of open clusters that he published in 1931, which is today known as the Collinder catalog.
He has written the books History of navigation and Worlds in Orbit. He was married twice, and his first wife gave him four children.
Collinder died at Uppsala.