!!!Daublebsky von Sterneck, Robert Freiherr von

b. Prague (Czech Republic), Feb. 7, 1839, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 2, 1910. Major General, physicist, astronomer; entered 
the Austro-Hungarian Army after 2 years of study at the University of 
Technology of Prague; fought in the wars of 1859 and 1866; worked at 
the Institute of Military Geography in Vienna 1862-1902, became head 
of group for astronomy and geodesy and of the observatory. He carried 
out cartography projects in Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia, was a pioneer 
of relative gravity measurement, and invented apparatus for tide 
measurement.

!Publications
Die Polhoehe und ihre Schwankungen, 1894; Die Ergebnisse 
der neuesten Schwerebestimmungen, 1895; Das Fortschreiten der 
Flutwelle im Adriat. Meer, 1908.

!Literature
Almanach der Akad. 
d. Wiss. Wien, 1911; OeBL; NDB.



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