Franz Brünnow
German astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow was a German astronomer. He was the first foreigner to become director of an American observatory, serving as director of Detroit Observatory from 1854 to 1863. He played a major role in establishing the study of astronomy in the United States at a time when the only other serious faculty was run by Benjamin Peirce at Harvard University. He introduced the teaching of rigorous German analytical methods and trained a number of students who went on to further American astronomy, including Asaph Hall and James Craig Watson . In addition, Charles Augustus Young learned German astronomical methods from Brünnow although he did not attend the University of Michigan.
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