Karl Kreil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Kreil

Austrian meteorologist and astronomer

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1798

Place of Birth: Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1862

Profession: astronomer, professor, meteorologist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Karl Kreil (1798–1862) was an Austrian meteorologist and astronomer, born in Ried.
Before university, he was educated at the Benedictine Kremsmünster Abbey, under the astronomer Boniface Schwarzenbrunner.
He was educated at the University of Vienna, where he studied law before devoting himself to astronomy.
In 1827 he became an assistant at the Vienna Observatory, from which he went to Milan in 1831 and thence in 1838 to Prague, where he was from 1845 to 1851 director of the observatory, then returned to Vienna to take charge of the Central Meteorological and Magnetic Bureau.
He made particularly important studies of terrestrial magnetism, discovering (1841) that it is practically unaffected by the moon and writing Anleitung zu den magnetischen Beobachtungen (second edition, 1858).
Many automatically registering meteorological machines were devised by him.
From 1849 until his death, he edited the Jahrbuch of the Central Bureau at Vienna.
He wrote many works, including: Cenni storici e teoretici sulle comete (1832) Ueber die Natur une Bewegung der Kometen (1843) Klimatologie von Böhmen (1865)



Alternative names	dauthage adolf; adolf dauthage
Description	Austrian lithographer and painter
Date of birth/death	20 February 1825	3 June 1883
Location of birth/death	Vienna	Rustendorf, today part of Vienna
Work location	Vienna
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