Asteroids named after people called Henri
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(2359) Debehogne
Named in honor of Henri Debehogne, astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Uccle, noted for his astrometric work on comets and minor planets. In recent years he has trained and collaborated with several astronomers in South America, and it was during one of these collaborations that he rediscovered this minor planet in 1979. Name proposed by E. Bowell, who made the identification.Discovered 5 October 1931 by K. Reinmuth, Heidelberg
(3820) Sauval
Henri Sauval (1623-1676) was a French legal expert at the High judicial Court of Paris in the age of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and also a scrupulous historian and author of Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la ville de Paris (1724). The name was suggested by A. J. Sauval.Discovered 25 February 1984 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
(7763) Crabeels
Henri Crabeels (b. 1904) is an internationally known organist and conductor in Antwerp. This minor planet is dedicated to him on the occasion of his 98th birthday.Discovered 16 October 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(8240) Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. After traveling through Europe and the Pacific islands, he initially developed an Impressionistic style of painting. Later he became the leader of a new school, Fauvism, characterized by bold use of color and distorted forms.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(8521) Boulainvilliers
Named in memory of Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722), French historian and political writer who influenced intellectual developments in the French Enlightenment. Claiming that historical studies can supply the tools for analyzing the present state of society, he worked out a theory of comparative historical study which approached the later writings of Montesquieu. In 1683 he published his L´Ideé d´un système geńeŕal de la Nature, which anticipated Holbach's Système de la Nature (1770). His Histoire de la religion et de la philosophie ancienne was published around 1700.Discovered 4 April 1992 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(10311) Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) was known for his still-life paintings with flowers and later for his lithographs. Famous also for his portrait groups, which he arranged in rows of heads, he immortalized many contemporary French celebrities.Discovered 16 August 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(11506) Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) helped set the course of avant-garde by using new kinds of subjects. A most significant work, painted with great psychological insight, is Elles (1896), a series of lithographs presenting a sensitive portrayal of brothel life.Discovered 2 March 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(11763) Deslandres
Henri Deslandres (1853-1948) was a French astrophysicist and observatory director. An independent inventor of the spectroheliograph, he investigated molecular spectra in the laboratory and observed the solar chromosphere.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(12261) Ledouanier
Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier, 1844-1910) was a French painter and the originator of modern naive art. Paintings like La Bohémienne endormie combine people, sun and moon, tropical nature and wild beasts in an exotic way.Discovered 7 October 1989 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(12702) Panamarenko
Panamarenko (Henri Van Herwegen, b. 1940) is a famous Belgian artist, well known for the construction of bizarre flying machines, the main theme for his work, in remembrance of the myth of Icarus. It remains a mystery whether his creations can actually fly.Discovered 22 September 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(12708) Van Straten
Henri Van Straten (1892-1944) is considered one of the greatest lithographers that Belgium ever produced. His work includes more than 900 prints, using several materials and exposing different themes.Discovered 16 October 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(20358) Dalem
Henri Dalem (b. 1951) is a specialist in data processing and the webmaster (marquis) of the international Holbach foundation. Also interested in eighteenth-century studies, he currently occupies himself with the origins of despotism.Discovered 25 April 1998 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(26183) Henrigodard
Henri Godard (b. 1937) is a professor of French literature at the Universities of Diderot and Sorbonne in Paris. He specialized in several famous writers of the twentieth century (Giono, Malraux, Céline), and he has also lectured at Harvard and Stanford.Discovered 17 April 1996 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(40007) Vieuxtemps
Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881), a Belgian composer and violist, was the prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century. The composer of six concertos for violin, two concertos for cello and sixteen compositions for violin and piano, he was particularly admired in Russia.Discovered 25 April 1998 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(42485) Stendhal
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783--1842) was a original and complex French writer of the first half of the 19th century. Well-known for his masterpieces Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839), Honoré de Balzac considered him a genial novelist.Discovered 18 January 1991 by E. W. Elst, Haute Provence
(45027) Cosquer
Henri Cosquer (b. 1950) is a professional diver who in 1985 discovered the cave now named for him near Marseilles. On the walls of the cave are ancient paintings dating back 27~000 and 19~000 years. The cave entrance is 37 meters under the actual Mediterranean sea level. The name was suggested by G. Burki.Discovered 28 November 1999 by S. Sposetti, Gnosca
(260886) Henritudor
Henri Owen Tudor (1859-1928) was a Luxembourgish engineer and inventor.Discovered 31 August 2005 by M. Dawson, Cote de Meuse
(333636) Reboul
Henri Reboul (b. 1946) is a French cosmologist. Between 1998 and 2013, he was responsible for teaching cosmology at the University of Montpellier. He was then a voluntary researcher at the Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier.Discovered 26 August 2008 by , Parc National des Cévenn s C. Demeautis, J.-M. Lopez
(341958) Chretien
Henri Chrétien (1879-1956) was a French astronomer and optician. An optical-calculation expert, he was the co-inventor of Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. This kind of telescope is now used throughout the world and even in space.Discovered 3 August 2008 by P. Sogorb, Eygalayes