Asteroids named after people called Ludwig
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(8055) Arnim
Achim (Ludwig Joachim) von Arnim (1781-1831) is one of the well-known German Romantics. Although he studied law and natural sciences, he dedicated his life to literature, especially German literature. With his friend Brentano he published about 600 German folksongs in Des Knaben Wunderhorn. German poets from the “Heidelberger Romantik”, such as the brothers Grimm, Tieck and Runge, worked together with Arnim and Brentano.Discovered 17 October 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(8056) Tieck
Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the great Romantic poets and writers. He became friends with Brentano, Fichte, Novalis, the brothers Grimm and many other poets of his time. He wrote the ironic fairy tales Ritter Blaubart, Der gestiefelte Kater and other sensitive and imaginative stories.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(10955) Harig
Ludwig Harig (b. 1927) is a German writer. Besides experimental texts and poetry, he also wrote narrative prose. A trilogy about his father and himself, with their lives projected against the background of historic events in a German-French border region, is especially noteworthy. The name was suggested by H. Duerbeck.Discovered 22 October 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(17484) Ganghofer
German author Ludwig Ganghofer (1855-1920), son of a forester, studied philosophy, was a dramatic advisor and editor, first in Vienna and later in Bavaria. He wrote numerous popular romantic dramas, short stories and novels, mainly with climbing or hunting themes. Some of these were made into movies.Discovered 13 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(24666) Miesvanrohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), some time director of the Bauhaus in Dessau, emigrated in 1938 and worked for 20 years at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is one of the leading personalities forming the modern architectural style, thereby treading new revolutionary paths.Discovered 8 September 1988 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(24712) Boltzmann
Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) confirmed Maxwellian electrodynamics experimentally in 1872 and is one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases. He explained thermodynamics in terms of statistical mechanics and black-body radiation. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 12 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(25029) Ludwighesse
Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874) was a German mathematician. Much of his work dealt with the study of cubic and higher-order curves, their inflections and intersections, as well as the algebraic transformations and invariants associated with them.Discovered 26 August 1998 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(29185) Reich
Ludwig Reich (b. 1940) is professor of mathematics at the University of Graz and editor of international mathematical journals. As a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences he is always helpful to its Commission for Astronomy. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 13 October 1990 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
(48472) Mossbauer
German Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (b. 1929) received with R. Hofstadter the Nobel Prize in physics in 1961 for his discovery of the recoil-free γ-ray resonance absorption (Mössbauer effect), which has wide application in nuclear physics, solid-state physics and chemistry.Discovered 2 October 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(73640) Biermann
Ludwig Biermann (1907-1986) was the first director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik. He made pioneering studies on stellar convection and the solar chromosphere and corona. His 1951 study of the structural changes in the tail of comet C/1942 X1 provided the first evidence of the existence of the solar wind.Discovered 5 September 1977 by H.-E. Schuster, La Silla
(243109) Hansludwig
Hans-Ludwig Neumann (1938-1991) was a German amateur astronomer and president of the Physikalischer Verein at Frankfurt am Main from 1976 to 1991. Neumann initiated the construction of the Taunus Observatory, where this minor planet was discovered.Discovered 12 September 2007 by Karge, S., Schwab, E., Taunus