Heinrich Eduard von Lade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German banker and amateur astronomer
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Place of Birth: Geisenheim, Hesse, Germany
About Heinrich Eduard von Lade
- Heinrich Eduard von Lade (24 February 1817 – 7 August 1904) was a German banker and amateur astronomer. He was born in Geisenheim, located along the banks of the Rhine river, the son of a wine merchant.
- He worked as a banker and exporter in Hamburg and Paris, and by the age of 44 he had earned enough to retire. In 1861 he built a private estate Monrepos in Geisenheim.
- There he dedicated himself to culturing fruit and wine, and established a school at the site to teach the art.
- He also built an observatory on the estate to pursue his interest in selenography, or mapping the Moon. He commissioned the construction of a lunar globe with one side in physical relief and the other with hashed relief and the crater names.
- This globe is now a very rare collector's item. In 1901 he was elevated to nobility and became a baron.
- He died in Geisenheim, which is still famous for its wine and the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute.
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