Born Cologne, Nordrhein‐Westfalen, (Germany), 18 February 1806
Died Münster, Nordrhein‐Westfalen, Germany, 30 June 1877
Edward Heis, whose birth certificate under the French occupation read Gustave Edouard Pierre Albert Heis, was an inexhaustible observer of meteors, variable stars, and their brightness, as well as of zodiacal light and the Milky Way. After graduating from the Königliche Karmeliten Gymnasium at Cologne in 1824, he began his studies in mathematics and philology at the University of Bonn. After receiving his teacher's training certificate in 1827, Heis taught mathematics and physics at his former school, now the Friedrich‐Wilhelms Gymnasium, from 1830 until 1837, and then until 1852 at the Bürger‐und Provinzial‐Gewerbeschule (commercial high school) at Aachen.
In 1852, on the suggestion of Alexander von Humboldt, and with the support of Julius Plücker and Friedrich Argelander, Heis was appointed by King Frederick William IV to succeed Christoph Gudermann...
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Eschweiler, Th. J. and Eduard Heis (1855). Lehrbuch der Geometrie. 3 Vols. Cologne: DuMont‐Schauberg.
Hagen, Johann Georg (1903). Beobachtungen veränderlicher Sterne von E. Heis aus den Jahren 1840–1877 und von A Krüger aus den Jahren 1853–1892. 2 Vols. Berlin: F. L. Dames.
Heis, Eduard (1837). Sammlung von Beispielen und Aufgaben aus der allgemeinen Arithmetik und Algebra. Cologne: DuMont‐Schauberg.
——— (1849). Die perodischen Sternschnuppen und die Resultate der Erscheinungen. Cologne: DuMont‐Schauberg.
——— (1872). Atlas cölestis novus. Cologne: DuMont‐Schauberg.
——— (1875). Zodiacallicht‐Beobachtungen in den letzten 29 Jahren 1847–1875. Veröffentlichung der Königlichen Sternwarte zu Münster, 1. Münster: Aschendorff'sche akademische Buchdruckerei.
——— (1877). Resultate der in den 43 Jahren 1833–1875 angestellten Sternschnuppen‐Beobachtungen. Veröfffentlichung der Königlichen Sternwarte zu Münster, 2. Münster: Aschendorff'sche akademische Buchdruckerei.
——— (1878). Atlas cölestis eclipticus ad delineandum lumen zodiacale. 8 Tabulae. Cologne: DuMont‐Schauberg.
Heis, Eduard and G. Neumayer (1867). In On Meteors in the Southern Hemisphere, pp. 9–25. Mannheim: J. Schneider. (Contains four short papers.)
Plassmann, Joseph (1930). “Eduard Heis.” In Westfälische Lebensbilder, edited by A. Bömer and O. Leunenschloss. Vol. 1, pp. 275–304. Münster: Aschendorff'sche Verlagsbuch‐Handlung.
Schubring, Gert (1985). “Das Mathematische Seminar der Universität Münster, 1831/1875 bis 1951.” Sudhoffs Archiv 96: 154–191.
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Butzer, P.L. (2007). Heis, Edward [Eduard, Edouard]. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_592
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