History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Persons (C)

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• Cacciatore, Gaetano (1814-1889)
  • Short biography and references (in Italian)
• Cacciatore, Niccolò [Nicolò] (1780-1841)
  • Short biography, references, links (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Short biography and references (in Italian)
• Caccini, Tommaso (1574-1648)
  • Biography and relation to Galileo
• Caesar, Julius (100? BC - 44 BC)
  • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
• Cahill, Daniel William (1796-1864)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Cajori, Florian (1859-1930)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Crater Cajori (lunar feature)
• Callippus of Cyzicus (c. 370 BC - c. 310 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Calvin, John (1509-1564)
  • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Calvin and the Astronomical Revolution, by Matthew F. Dowd
• Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639[1659?])
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Campani, Giuseppe (1635-1715)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Campanus of Novara [Campano, Giovanni] (1220-1296)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Campbell, Catherine Celeste (1905-?)
  • Short biography
• Campbell, William Wallace (1862-1938)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
• Candy, Michael Philip (1928-1994)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Canivet (...-1774)
  • Short biography
• Cannizzaro, Stanislao [Stanislav] (1826-1910)
  Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Crater Cannizzaro (lunar feature)
• Cannon, Annie Jump (1863-1941)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
• Cantelli, Francesco Paolo (1875-1966)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Canton, John (1718-1772)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845-1918)
  Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (Or see here.)
  • Very short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Crater Cantor (lunar feature)
• Cantor, Moritz Benedikt (1829-1920)
  Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Crater Cantor (lunar feature)
• Capella, Martianus (fl. 5th c.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Capra, Baldassar [Baldassarre] (1580-1626)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography
• Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan (1606-1682)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and extended bibliography (in German)
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Carathéodory, Constantin (1873-1950)
  • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Carbonnelle, Ignatius (1829-1889)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Carcavi [Carcavy], Pierre de (c. 1600 - 1684)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Cardan [Cardano; Cardanus], Jerome [Geronimo; Hieronymus; Girolamo] (1501-1576)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Very short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography and references
  • Very short biography
• Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite (1753-1823)
  Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
  • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Caron, Antoine (c.1515-1593)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826-1875)
  • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Carrington's Flare
    See The Sun - History for further information.
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• Carruthers, George R. (b. 1939)
  • Biographical data and references
• Cartan, Élie Joseph (1869-1951)
  Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Crater Cartan (lunar feature)
• Carter, Charles Rooking (1822-1896)
  • Biography
• Cassini (family)
  • Short biographies and reference (in German)
  • Very short biographies
• Cassini, Gian Domenico [Giovanni Domenico; Jean Dominique] [Cassini I] (1625-1712)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and references (Or see German version.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (Or see Italian version or French version or German version.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Santuario Madonna Poggio del Rey, Perinaldo, Italy (in Italian) (1 Sep 1999: disappeared)
    Fu retta su indicazione del Cassini sul meridiano ligure.
  • Museo Cassiniano / Osservatorio Astronomico Comunale "G. D. Cassini", Perinaldo, Italy (in Italian) (1 Sep 1999: disappeared)
  • Cassini Orbiter
  • Links to WWW sources
• Cassini, Jacques [Cassini II] (1677-1756)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography, references (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Cassini, Jacques Dominique [Cassini IV] (1748-1845)
  • Very short biography, references (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Cassini de Thury, César-François [Cassini III] (1714-1784)
  • Very short biography, references (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Castelli, Benedetto (1578-1643)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and relation to Galileo
  • Short biography
• Castillon, Giovan Francesco Mauro Melchior [Johann] (1704[1708?]-1791)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Castner [Kastner], Caspar (1655-1709)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Cataldi, Pietro Antonio (1552-1626)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Cauchy, Augustin Louis [Augustin-Louis] (1789-1857)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography and references (Or see here.)
• Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura (1598?-1647)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Biography
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Links to WWW sources
• Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
  • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
• Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895)
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Cecco d'Ascoli (1250/1258/1269?-1327)
  • Very short biography
• Cellarius, Andreas (c.1596-1665)
  • Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 - 1665) - A Bio-Bibliographical Study, by Robert H. van Gent
  • Atlas Coelestis, Amsterdam, 1660
• Cellérier, Charles (1818-1889)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian)
• Celsius, Anders (1701-1744)
  • Biography
  • Short biography and references (Or see German version.)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
  • (4169) Celsius
• Cerenkov: see Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)
• Cerulli, Vincenzo (1859-1927)
  • Astronomical Observatory "Vincenzo Cerulli", Teramo, Italy
• Cesi, Federico (1585-1630)
  • Biography and relation to Galileo
  • Short biography
• Chadwick, James, Sir (1891-1974)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Challis, James (1803-1882)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
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• Chalonge, Daniel (1895-1977)
  • Daniel Chalonge Museum, Erice, Italy
  • Daniel Chalonge Museum (See also here.)
  • International School of Astrophysics "Daniel Chalonge"
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• Chamberlain, Noel Gordon (b. 1916)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
• Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843-1928)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (See also here.)
• Chandler, Seth Carlo (1846-1913)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995)
• Chang Heng: see Zhang Heng (78-139)
• Chant, Clarence Augustus (1865-1956)
  • The Legacy Continues: C. A. Chant and the David Dunlap Observatory, by C. H. Russell
    From RASC Journal, V. 93, No. 1, February 1999.
  • Very short biography
• Chaplygin [Tschaplygin], Sergej Alekseevich (1869-1942)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Crater Chaplygin (lunar feature)
• Chapman, John Herbert (1921-1979)
  • Short biography
• Chapman, Sydney (1888-1970)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Charles II, King of England (1630-1685)
  • Short biographical data
• Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludwig (1862-1934)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Châtelet, Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du (1706-1749)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography and reference
  • Short biography (in German)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
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• Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400)
  • Short biography and links
  • Very short biography
  • A Treatise on the Astrolabe, c. 1391
  • A Treatise on the Astrolabe, c. 1391
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    Nearly all sources concern his poetry.
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• Chebyshev [Tschebyschew], Pafnutij [Pafnuty] L'vovich [Lwowitsch] (1821-1894)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Crater Chebyshev (lunar feature)
• Cherenkov [Cerenkov; Tscherenkow], Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
    Including a biography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
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• Cherry, Thomas Macfarland (1898-1966)
  • Biography
  • Short biographical data and bibliography
  • Very short biography and archival sources
• Chéseaux: see Loys de Chéseaux, Philippe (1718-1751)
• Chiara, Luciano (1910-1969)
  • Short biography and reference (in Italian)
• Childrey, Joshua (1623-1670)
  • Biographical data and references
• Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich (1756-1827)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Christiansen, Wilbur Norman (b. 1913)
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Christie, William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922)
  • Very short biography
• Christmann, Jacob (1554-1613)
  • Biographical data and references
• Christy, James W. (b. 1938)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Chrysippus (280 BC - 206 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
• Chu-hsi: see Zhu Xi (1130-1200)
• Cidenas (4th c. BC)
  • Very short biography
• Ciermans, Jean (1602-1648)
  • Disciplinae mathematicae ..., 1650
• Ciolkovskij: see Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich (1857-1935)
• Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713-1765)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Clark (family)
  • Very short biographies (Encycl. Brit.)
• Clark, Alvan (1804-1887)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
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• Clark, Alvan Graham (1832-1897)
  • Very short biography
• Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Clarke, William Branwhite (1798-1878)
  • Very short biography and archival sources
• Clausen, Thomas (1801-1885)
  • Very short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel (1822-1888)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Clavius [Klau], Christoph [Christopher] (1538-1612)
  • Biography, relation to Galileo and references
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography
  • Disputation on Planetary Systems from Chapter 4 of Christoph Clavius, In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius, Venice, 1596, edited by James M. Lattis
    Includes a biographical sketch and a selective bibliography.
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography and WWW links
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Clavius-Gymnasium Bamberg (in German)
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• Cleanthes (331 BC - 232 BC)
  • Very short biography
• Cleomedes [Kleomedes] (fl. 1st c.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
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• Clerke, Agnes Mary (1842-1907)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Clerke, Ellen Mary (1840-1906)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Coblentz, William Weber (1873-1962)
  • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
• Cocconi, Giuseppe (b. 1914)
  • Searching for Interstellar Communications, by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison
    From NATURE, vol. 184, no. 4690, pages 844-846, Sept. 19, 1959. Abriged version, including very short biographies of the authors.
• Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir (1897-1967)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951
    Including a short biography.
  • Very short biography and links
  • Very short biography and links
  • Very short biography and links
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Britannica Online entries
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• Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683)
  • Short biography and references
• Collins, John (1625-1683)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Collins, Michael (b. 1930)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
• Colson, Edmund Albert (1881-1950)
  • Very short biography, archival sources and reference (under construction)
• Columbus, Christopher [Span. Cristóbal Colón; Ital. Cristoforo Colombo; French Christophe Colomb; Germ. Christoph Kolumbus] (1451-1506)
  • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Very short biography
  • The Columbus Navigation Homepage
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• Comenius, Johann Amos [orig. Komenský, Jan Amos] (1592-1670)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
• Commandino, Federico (1509-1575)
  • Short biography
• Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962)
  • Very short biography and references
• Comrie, Leslie John (1893-1950)
  • Very short biography
• Condamine: see La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701-1774)
• Condon, Edward Uhler (1902-1974)
  • Very short biography (See also here.)
• Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat (1743-1794)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Coningham, S. Brett (?-1999)
  • Obituary
• Conon of Samos (c. 280 BC - c. 220 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
• Conrad, Charles P. "Pete" (1930-1999)
  • Obituary (Or see here.)
  • Obituary (Or see here.)
• Conway, Anne, née Finche (1631-1679)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography and references
  • Kurzbiographie Short biography (in German)
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• Cook, James (1728-1779)
  • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography and archival sources
  • Very short biography
• Cooke, William Ernest (1863-1947)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Copernicus [Kopernik, wrongly also Kopernikus], Nicolaus [Mikolaj] (1473-1543)
• Cornu, Marie Alfred (1841-1902)
  • Very short biography
• Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718)
  • Short biography
  • Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria: Epitome cosmografica, 1693
  • Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde (Homepage)
    International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes and Related Instruments
  • Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde (Info) (Or see here.)
  • The House of Coronelli
    Trader of antique globes
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• Cortes de Albacar, Martin (before 1530 - before 1582)
  • Biographical data and references
• Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574)
  • Short biography
• Cosserat, Eugène Maurice Pierre (1866-1931)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Coster, Francis (1532?-1619)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Cotes, Roger (1682-1716)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Cournot, Antoine Augustin (1801-1877)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Covington, Arthur Edwin (b. 1913)
  • Very short biography
• Cowling, Thomas George (1906-1990)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Coyne, George V. (b. 1933)
  • Short biography (Or see here.)
• Crabtree, William (1610-1644)
  • Biographical data and references
• Craig [Craige], John (1662/63-1731)
  • Biographical data and references
• Cremona, Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe (1830-1903)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Cristannus de Prachaticz (before 1370-1439)
  • Short biography and research project
• Cronstrand, Simon Anders (1784-1850)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Crookes, William (1832-1919)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Culpeper, Nicholas (1616-1654)
  • Very short biography
  • The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, 1652
  • Thulesius, Olav: Nicholas Culpeper: English Physician and Astrologer, 1992
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• Cumont, Franz [Franz-Valéry-Marie] (1868-1947)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Cunitz [Cunitia], Maria (1610-1664)
  • Short biographical data
• Curie, Douglas (20th c.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Curie, Marie, née Sklodowska (1867-1934)
  Mars and Moon craters "Sklodowska" are named after her.
  • Short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)
  Mars and Moon craters are named after him.
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Curlewis, Harold Burnham (1874-1968)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Curley, James (1796-1889)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Curtis, Heber Doust (1872-1942)
  • Very short biography (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Obituary
    From PASP, 54, 68, 1942
• Cusanus: see Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
• Cutler, Manasseh (1742-1823)
  • Short biography and references
• Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien (1619-1655)
  • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Very short biography
• Cysat, Johann Baptist [Cysatus] (1586-1657)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography, references, links (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Czerny, Albin (1821-1900)
  • Short biography and extended bibliography (in German)

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 12 Feb 2004