Famous People with Name Wilhelm

Wilhelm Wolff Beer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Wolff Beer: was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.Beer's fame derives from his hobby, astronomy. He built a private observatory with a 9.5 cm refractor in Tiergarten, Berlin. Together with Johann Heinrich Mädler he produced the first exact map of the Moon (entitled Mappa Selenographica) in 1834-1836, and in 1837 published a description of the Moon (Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhältnissen). Both remained the best descriptions of the Moon for many decades.In 1830, Beer and Mädler created the first globe of the planet Mars. In 1840 they made a map of Mars and calculated its rotation period to be 24 h 37 min 22.7 s, only 0.1 seconds different from the actual period as it is known today.

Wilhelm Von Biela            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Von Biela: was an German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer.Wilhelm von Biela was born in Roßla, Harz (Northern Germany) and was a captain in the Austrian army where he participated in a number of military campaigns against Napoleon between 1805, 1809 and later on.In the field of astronomy, he specialized in observing and calculating the orbits of comets. He also did some sunspot observations. He independently discovered some comets that others had already found, and made one independent discovery of his own: the lost periodic comet 3D/Biela.

Wilhelm Julius Foerster            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Julius Foerster: was a German astronomer, father of the pacifist and ethicist Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster. His name can also be written Förster, but is usually written "Foerster" even in most German sources where 'ö' is otherwise used in the text.A native of Grünberg, Silesia, he worked as Johann Franz Encke's assistant. After Encke's death in 1865, he became director of the Berlin Observatory until 1903.He co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Oskar Lesser, the first co-discovery on record. The asteroid 6771 Foerster is named after him, and so is the Wilhelm Foerster Sternwarte (William Foerster Observatory; IAU code 544).

Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich: was a German naturalist and explorer.and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the two men sharing an interest in natural history. Hemprich lectured at Berlin University on comparative physiology, and wrote Grundiss der Naturgeschichte (The Rudiments of Natural History) (1820). In his spare time he studied reptiles and amphibians at the zoological museum under Hinrich Lichtenstein.In 1820 Hemprich and Ehrenberg were invited to serve as naturalists on a primarily archeological expedition to Egypt, led by Prussian General von Minutoli. The two naturalists were sponsored by the Berlin Academy. In March 1821 they separated from the main party and travelled up the river Nile to Dongola, the capital of Nubia. They spent the next two years studying the natural history of that part of Egypt.

Wilhelm Blasius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Blasius: a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm: was a Baltic-German astronomer from a famous dynasty of astronomers.

Jürgen Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jürgen Wilhelm: is a retired German footballer who played for Borussia Dortmund in the Fussball-Bundesliga. He is best known for scoring the Goal of the Year in Germany in 1983, while playing for amateur third division side BFV Hassia Bingen.

Karl Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Wilhelm: was a German choral director. He is best known as the composer of the song "Die Wacht am Rhein." He was a student of Aloys Schmitt and A. André. From 1841 to 1864 he was the director of the Krefeld Liedertafel. In Krefeld in 1854 he set to words "Die Wacht am Rhein," the poem Max Schneckenburger wrote in 1840. In recognition of the success and the national importance of this song, he received numerous honors and on 24 June 1871 he received a personal acknowledgment from Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck.

Richard Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Richard Wilhelm: was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was eliminated in the first round of the 3500 metre walk competition.

Friedrich Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Wilhelm: was a German-born American businessman. Von Frantzius was born on in Sawdin, West Prussia to parents Arthur and Ida (Ehlert) von Frantzius.[1][2] Von Frantzius was educated at Marlenwerder and Graudenz in West Russia from 1872 to 1885. He worked for three