Gottfried Heinsius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German astronomer
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Place of Birth: Naumburg (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Gottfried Heinsius
- Gottfried Heinsius (April, 1709 – May 21, 1769) was a German mathematician, geographer and astronomer.He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Ph.D.
- in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus.
- Later he became professor of mathematics at the same institution.
- Professor Heinsius may have been the first to publish an announcement about the return of Halley's comet in 1759.
- From 1736–43 he taught in St.
- Petersburg with Leonhard Euler and was a member of the St.
- Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
- He died in Leipzig. The crater Heinsius on the Moon is named after him.
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