Miklós Konkoly-Thege (b. 20 January 1842 - d. 17 February 1916) was a Hungarian astronomer and land-owning noble.[1] [2]
History edit
He studied astronomy and physics at the universities of Budapest (1857-1860) and Berlin (1860-1862).[3] After his studies he continued to visit the observatories of Göttingen, Greenwich, Heidelberg and Paris. During 1871 Konkoly-Thege constructed a telescope within his castle-residence, and in 1874 constructed an observatory in his palace park within Ógyalla; observations from here were used by Radó Kövesligethy to produce the Ógyallan Catalogue of Spectra. [2] From 1890 till 1911 he was the director of the Hungarian Institute of Meteorology and Geomagnetism. He has donated his private observatory to the state (Konkoly Observatory). Ha was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and was also a member of the Parliament.
Handbooks edit
Praktische Anleitung zur Anstellung astronomischer Beobachtungen mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Astrophysik, nebst einer modernen Instrumentenkunde, Braunschweig, 1883 [2]
Praktische Anleitung zur Himmelsphotographie nebst einer kurzgefassten Anleitung zur modernen photographischen Operation und der Spectralphotographie im Cabinet, Halle, 1887 [2]
Handbuch für Spectroscopiker in Cabinet und am Fernrohr. Halle, 1890 [2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ fsz.bme.hu Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 09:58
- ^ a b c d e "The First Century of the Konkoly Observatory". Magda Vargha and Zoltán Kolláth. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.