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| | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) |
 | | Wilhelm Bessel was born in Minden on July 22, 1784 as the son of Carl Friedrich Bessel, a government secretary, and his wife Friederike Ernestine (b. |
 | | In 1809, Bessel was appointed director of King Frederick William III of Prussia's new Königsberg Observatory, and as professor of astronomy at Albertus University in Königsberg, positions he should keep for the rest of his life. |
 | | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was honored during his lifetime by academy memberships; besides Berlin, in Palermo, Petersburg and Stockholm, by memberships in the scientific societies of Edinburgh, Goettingen, Kopenhagen and London, the British Royal Astronomical and the Royal Meteorological Societies. |
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