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Franz Xaver von Zach (
Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach) (
June 4,
1754–
September 2,
1832) was a Hungarian astronomer born at
Pest.
He served for some time in the
Austrian army, and afterwards lived in
London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the
Saxon minister,
Count Brühl. In 1786 he was appointed by
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on the
Seeberg at
Gotha, which was finished in 1791. At the close of the
18th century, he organised a group of twenty-four astronomers to prepare for a systematic search for the "missing planet" predicted by the
Titius-Bode law between
Mars and
Jupiter. Ironically,
Ceres was discovered by accident just as the search was getting underway. From 1806 Zach accompanied the duke's widow on her travels in the south of
Europe. He died in
Paris in 1832.
Zach published
Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 1792; new and improved edition,
ibid., 1804), and numerous papers on geographical subjects, particularly on the geographical positions of many towns and places, which he determined on his travels with a
sextant.
His principal importance was, however, as editor of three scientific journals of great value:
Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden (4 vols., Gotha, 1798-1799),
Monatliche Correspondenz zur Beförderung der Erd- und Himmels-Kunde (28 vols., Gotha, 1800-1813, from 1807 edited by
B. von Lindenau), and (Genoa, 1818-1826, 14 vols., and one number of the 15th, the suppression of which was instigated by the
Jesuits).
Asteroid
999 Zachia and
Zach crater on the
moon are named after him, while asteroid
64 Angelina is named after an astronomical station he set up near
Marseille.
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