Asteroids named after people called Ferdinand
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(4662) Runk
Ferdinand Runk (1764-1834) made many landscape paintings of the Czech and Austrian countryside as the court painter of the Schwarzenberg family. A beautiful circular view from the Kleť look-out tower inspired him to make watercolors of this panoramic view in 1830. The name was suggested by J. Ticha.Discovered 19 April 1984 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(6769) Brokoff
Father and son, Jan (1652-1718) and Ferdinand Maxmilian (1688-1731) Brokoff were prominent sculptors of the Baroque period in Bohemia. Their well known works include some of the statues on the Charles Bridge in Prague. The name was suggested by J. Ticha and M. Tichy.Discovered 15 February 1985 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(14940) Freiligrath
The German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876) pleaded in his poetry for democratic and social reforms and for liberty. Because he yearned for a national uprising, he was shadowed at times. At the end of his life, in Bismarck's time, he became a patriotic poet.Discovered 4 March 1995 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(15071) Hallerstein
Ljubljana-born Ferdinand Avguštin Hallerstein (1703-1774), a Jesuit missionary in China, was known for his work in astronomy, mathematics and cartography. President of the Chinese Imperial Bureau of Astronomy, he prepared an accurate catalogue of 3083 stars and discovered and carefully measured comet C/1748 H1.Discovered 24 January 1999 by Crni Vrh, Crni Vrh
(17486) Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) founded modern Swiss painting with his use of allegorical themes, historical events, sights of the Alps, lakes and portraits. His monumental 1907-1908 mural Marching out of the Jenense students in the war of liberation in 1813 adorns the aula of Jena University.Discovered 10 September 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(20174) Eisenstein
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (1823-1852) was a brilliant German mathematician who published research on elliptic functions, cyclotomy, quadratic and biquadratic residues, as well as on cubic and biquadratic reciprocity laws.Discovered 13 December 1996 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(204370) Ferdinandvanek
Ferdinand Vaněk (1936-2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist and dissident, fictitious character in the play Audience as well as an alter ego of its author, Václav Havel. Vaněk also acted in other plays, including ones by Pavel Kohout, Pavel Landovský and Jiří Dienstbier.Discovered 5 October 2004 by KLENOT, Klet
(423645) Quenisset
Ferdinand Jules Quénisset (1872–1951) was a French astronomer who discovered the comets C/1893 N1 and C/1911 S2. He worked as an observer, specializing in astrophotography, at Camille Flammarion's observatory in Juvisy-sur-Orge.Discovered 22 December 2005 by J.-C. Merlin, Nogales