Asteroids named after people called Johann
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(1651) Behrens
Named in memory of Johann Gerhard Behrens (1889-1978), pastor at Detern, well known for his orbit computations on comets and minor planets. Name proposed by O. Kippes, who found some of the identifications involving this planet.Discovered 23 April 1936 by M. Laugier, Nice
(5195) Kaendler
Named after Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706–1775), sculptor and porcelain-modeler at the Meissen Porcelain Manufacture. Kaendler was the first to develop the fine baroque porcelain figures, which are still imitated today.Discovered 26 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(6734) Benzenberg
German physicist and astronomer Johann Friedrich Benzenberg (1777-1846) organized a school for surveyors and made an early demonstration of the rotation of the earth. He wrote a Handbuch der angewandten Geometrie (1815) and established the Bilk Observatory at Düsseldorf.Discovered 23 March 1992 by Ueda, S., Kaneda, H., Kushiro
(7449) Dollen
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Döllen (1820-1897), an astronomer at the Dorpat Observatory, was an assistant of W. Struve. Later he worked on geodetic problems at the Pulkovo Observatory. Döllen is notable for his discussion on errors of heliometer observations. The name was suggested by L. D. Schmadel.Discovered 21 August 1949 by K. Reinmuth, Heidelberg
(8158) Herder
Named for Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), German philosopher, theologian, writer, translator, poet and collector of folk songs. Through his study of history, language, culture, and literature, he became a great authority on the history of the European mind. Through Goethe, he was appointed head clergyman at the court of Weimar in 1776. With Goethe, Schiller and Wieland, Herder is one of the four “Greats” of the Weimar classical period.Discovered 23 October 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(8203) Jogolehmann
Named in memory of the German geologist Johann Gottlob Lehmann (1719-1767), who made important contributions to stratigraphy, the study of order and sequence in bedded sedimentary rocks. Educated originally at the University of Wittenberg as a medical doctor, he soon discovered that his real field of interest was mines and mining. He successfully explained the origin of mineral deposits in mines and recognized that rocks do not fall in haphazard positions but form a historical sequence, thereby supplying a strong argument against the biblical diluvian theory.Discovered 7 February 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(8368) Lamont
Johann von Lamont (1805-1879) was born in Scotland but moved to Bavaria to be educated. He became director of the Bogenhausen Observatory and Astronomer Royal of Bavaria. Initially studying positional astronomy, he later developed a network of meteorological and magnetic stations throughout Europe.Discovered 20 February 1991 by R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring
(8583) Froberger
Named for Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), organist and the foremost German keyboard composer of his day. A pupil of Frescobaldi, he combined features of many national styles. His toccate, full of imaginative chromatic harmonies, were copied out and imitated by J. S. Bach.Discovered 8 January 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(9052) Uhland
Named for the German poet Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), best known for lyric poetry and ballads in which historical and legendary themes dominate, and which were set to music by well-known composers. Uhland is the most famous representative of Swabian Romanticism. In his lifetime, his “Gedichte” (1815) were printed in 42 editions. He also engaged himself in political issues, and in 1848-49 was a member of the Frankfurt parliament.Discovered 30 October 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(9134) Encke
Named in memory of Johann Franz Encke (1791-1865), eminent German astronomer. Beginning in 1816, Encke was assistant professor and director of the Seeberg Observatory, near Gotha. He computed the orbit of a short-period comet discovered by Pons and demonstrated that this object had been observed repeatedly. Later it was named comet 2P/Encke. In 1825 Encke was appointed director of the Berlin Observatory and member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Encke is most famous for editing the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch from 1830 to 1866. This contained several very important papers on orbit determination and perturbation computations.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(10749) Musaus
Johann Carl August Musäus (1735-1787), a private tutor at the court of Weimar, was the satiric author of the five-volume Volksmärchen der Deutschen, which brought him the reputation as a precursor to the brothers Grimm.Discovered 6 April 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(11673) Baur
German amateur astronomer Johann M. Baur (b. 1930) founded the Chaonis Observatory in northern Italy and there discovered many minor planets by means of photographic plates. The telescope he used to make his first discovery is still in use at the Farra Observatory.Discovered 26 January 1998 by Farra d'Isonzo, Farra d'Isonzo
(11847) Winckelmann
The German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) was the founder of classic archaeology. His passionate interpretation of Greek art defined the ideal of the beauty of classicism. His extensive knowledge of ancient art and culture is stated in his main work Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums.Discovered 20 January 1988 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(11970) Palitzsch
Johann Georg Palitzsch (1723-1788) was a farmer by profession and an astronomer by vocation. He recovered comet 1P/Halley on its first predicted return in 1758 and observed further comets, as well as variable stars such as Mira and Algol. The citation was prepared by P. Brosche.Discovered 4 October 1994 by Sicoli, P., Ghezzi, P., Sormano
(12755) Balmer
Johann J. Balmer (1825-1898) was a Swiss high-school teacher who examined the four visible lines in the spectrum of the hydrogen atom. By playing around with the numbers of their wavelengths, he finally put all four wavelengths into one equation, i.e., Balmer's formula.Discovered 20 July 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(16398) Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), famous Austrian pianist and versatile composer, Mozart's pupil and Beethoven's friend, made numerous concert tours. He was appointed conductor of the court orchestra in Weimar in 1819 and held this position until his death. His tomb is in the historical churchyard in Weimar.Discovered 24 September 1982 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(16742) Zink
Johann Josef Zink (1842-1920) was a publisher who issued postcards and guides in South Bohemia. Interested in astronomy, he was a prolific amateur who drew planets and comets. His astronomical instruments and diaries were placed at the Ceske Budejovice Observatory in 1937.Discovered 21 July 1996 by Ticha, J., Tichy, M., Klet
(19970) Johannpeter
Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), Heidelberg theologian and author of Alemannischen Gedichte (1803), collected his best-known stories in Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes (1811). His linguistic skills, humor, simplicity and emotionality established his popularity.Discovered 8 September 1988 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(20060) Johannforster
German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) and his son Georg accompanied James Cook on the second Pacific Voyage. In Observations made during a Voyage around the World (1778), he described his investigations. In 1779 he became professor of natural history and mineralogy at the University of Halle.Discovered 15 August 1993 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
(20333) Johannhuth
Johann Sigismund Huth (1763-1818) was a founder of astronomy at Kharkiv University, Russia (now Ukraine). He was a professor of this university during 1808-1811 and director of Tartu observatory (Estonia) from 1811 to 1818. Huth discovered four comets and estimated the diameter of (3) Juno by the eclipse method.Discovered 25 April 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(23473) Voss
Philologist and poet Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826) wrote idyllic scenes of civil life, partly in Low German dialect. His major achievements are translations or free renderings of Greek and Roman authors like Homer, Ovid, Virgil and Horace, thereby opening up a new relation with the ancients for his contemporaries.Discovered 11 October 1990 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(28547) Johannschroter
Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745-1816) was a lunar astronomer influenced by William Herschel and who later influenced Karl Ludwig Harding and Fredrich Wilhelm Bessel. He published his seminal work on lunar topography entitled Selenotopographische Fragmente zur genauern Kenntniss der Mondfläche in 1791.Discovered 3 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(28726) Kailey-Steiner
Johann Rod Kailey-Steiner (b. 1999) is a finalist in the 2013 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for his engineering project. He attends the Grant Beacon Middle School, Denver, Colorado.Discovered 6 April 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(29197) Gleim
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803) was secretary of the cathedral chapter at Halberstadt. He wrote odes in imitation of Horace and Anacreon, rhymed fables, romances and patriotic songs. His patronage of fledgling poets earned him the affectionate appellation of “Father Gleim”.Discovered 15 January 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(29491) Pfaff
Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765-1825) was a German mathematician who proposed the first general method for integrating partial differenitial equations of the first order.Discovered 23 November 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(30717) Berkowski
Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski was a Prussian daguerreotypist. On 28 July 1851 at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), he took the first photograph of a solar eclipse, a daguerreotype that was also the first correctly-exposed photograph of the solar corona.Discovered 26 October 1937 by K. Reinmuth, Heidelberg
(32853) Dobereiner
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780-1849), professor of chemistry at Jena and creator of the first chemical educational laboratory, was a lifelong friend of Goethe. He discovered the catalytic properties of platinum and observed similarities among elements that anticipated the periodic system of elements.Discovered 21 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(35229) Benckert
Johann Peter Benckert (1709-1765) created stone, stucco and wooden sculptures for the court of the prince-bishop of Bamberg. After 1746, he worked primarily for the Prussian residences in Berlin and Potsdam (“Chinese Teahouse” in Sanssouci), evolving from the Baroque style into that of the Frederician Rococo.Discovered 24 March 1995 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(48480) Falk
Writer and social pedagogue Johann Daniel Falk (1768–1826), legation councilor at Weimar and friendly with Goethe, founded the ‘Society of the Friends in Need’ and a home for neglected children during the Napoleonic wars. His song O du fröhliche is one of the best known Christmas carols.Discovered 28 December 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(65859) Madler
German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794-1874) succeeded Struve as director of the Dorpat (Tartu) Observatory in 1840. Known with Fraunhofer for the first exact map of the moon Mappa selenographica (four volumes, 1834-1836), he continued Struve's program of observations of double stars.Discovered 9 April 1997 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(73693) Dorschner
German astronomer Johann M. Dorschner (b. 1939) researched and lectured at the Astrophysical Institute of the University of Jena. His main research field was interstellar and circumstellar dust. He established the Jena laboratory astrophysics branch. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 12 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(85216) Schein
Johann Herman Schein (1586-1630), born and died in Saxony, was cantor of Leipzig's Thomanerchor for 16 years. He belongs to the grand three “S” of baroque music in Germany: the three composers Schütz, Schein and Scheidt, were born in 1585, 1586 and 1587, respectively.Discovered 24 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(101811) Jakobkaup
Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873) was a German paleontologist and zoologist. In 1829, he developed a theory of evolution similar to Darwin's later theory of natural selection. The same year, he discovered the Deinotherium, an extinct genus of elephant-like animals. Kaup first described and named numerous taxa of living and extinct species.Discovered 14 May 1999 by CSS, Catalina
(120481) Johannwalter
Johann Walter (1496–1570), born not far from Jena, was cantor in the town of Torgau and director of the Saxon court orchestra. He published several collections of hymnbooks and composed the melody of the international ecumenical song “Each morning with its newborn light”. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 24 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(157015) Walterstraube
Johann Walter Straube (b. 1937) was a founding father of astronomy in Namibia. For 28 years, he oversaw an astronomical research facility of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie on the Gamsberg, Namibia.Discovered 25 August 2003 by Knofel, A., Lehmann, G., Drebach
(207687) Senckenberg
Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-1772) was a medical practitioner in his native city of Frankfurt am Main. He donated his estate as a foundation for science and medicine. Amongst others, the Senckenberg Museum, a hospital and the Physikalischer Verein at Frankfurt am Main are based on his foundation.Discovered 12 September 2007 by Schwab, E., Kling, R., Taunus
(313384) Holetschek
Johann Holetschek (1846–1923) was an Austrian astronomer. Known for his brightness determinations of nebulae and star clusters, he specialized in comets, specifically their orbits, brightnesses and tails. His multi-part main work discusses the brightness evolution and tail lengths of all known comets at the time.Discovered 12 June 2002 by M. Meyer, Palomar
(562971) Johannhagen
Johann Georg Hagen (1847–1930) was an Austrian-American astronomer and Jesuit priest. He was Director at the Georgetown University Observatory (1888–1906) and the Vatican Observatory (1906–1930). Hagen devised several ingenious experiments at the Vatican to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, directly confirming the theories of Copernicus and Galileo.Discovered 23 February 2012 by R. P. Boyle K. Äernis, Mount Graham