Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf Engelmann

Engelmann observed 124 nebulae (from the G.C.) with the 6" meridian circle at the new Leipzig Observatory (Johannistal) during the years 1866-79; see AN 2485, Meridianbeobachtungen von Nebelflecken, p. 193 (1882). Engelmann is the co-author of the famous Newcomb-Engelmann, Populäre Astronomie (see: Sterne und Weltraum, 6/7, 215, 1981).

Obituary: AN 119, 47 (1888); VJS 23, 153 (1888)

 

Leipzig Observatory