!!!Littrow, Joseph Johann

b. Horovský Týn, Czech Republic (then Bischofteinitz), March 13, 1781, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 30, 1840, astronomer, father of Karl Ludwig von  
Littrow. 1807 Professor in Kraków, 1809 at the University of 
Kasan (Russia), 1819-1840 Director of the Vienna Observatory, 
1834-1837 professor for Higher Mathematics. A lunar crater was named 
after him.

!Publications
Theoret. und pract. Astronomie, 3 parts, 1821 to 1827; 
Die Wunder des Himmels, 4 vols, 1834-1836; Atlas des gestirnten 
Himmels, 1839.

!Literature
NDB.



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