Herr, Josef Philipp#
b. Vienna, Nov. 18, 1819, d. Hinterbruehl (Lower Austria), Sept. 30, 1884, geodesist and astronomer. 1852 taught at the Joanneum in Graz, 1856 at Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, first rector of the University of Technology in Vienna; initiator of the Austrian Commission for Arc Measurement, first director of the standards commission in Vienna.
Work: Lehrbuch der sphaerischen Astronomie, 1887.