Born Cologne, (Germany), 14 September 1844
Died Cologne, Germany, 1 July 1914
The director of the Cologne Observatory during the late 19th and early 20th century, Hermann Klein was an energetic man of many talents renowned for an excellent star atlas, a map of the Milky Way, and several widely employed texts on astronomy and meteorology. But, above all else he was an ardent observer of the Moon, and his popular writings did much to advance the cause of lunar studies in Germany. As a young man, Klein had been personally acquainted with both Johann von Mädler and Johann Schmidt. He translated James Nasmyth and John Carpenter's influential 1874 book The Moon, Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite into German and fostered widespread interest in selenographical work in the periodicals he edited: Sirius, Gaea, Wochenschrift für Astronomie, and the annual Jahrbuch für Astronomie und Geophysik. Klein was undoubtedly the most active student of the Moon in Germany during the latter...
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Sheehan, William P. and Thomas A. Dobbins (2001). Epic Moon: A History of Lunar Exploration in the Age of the Telescope. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann‐Bell.
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Dobbins, T.A. (2007). Klein, Hermann Joseph. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_778
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