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    Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875)

    Friedrich Argelander
    A German astronomer who established the study of variable stars as an independent branch of astronomy and is renowned for his great catalog, the Bonner Durchmusterung, listing all stars in the northern hemisphere above ninth magnitude. He later initiated the first Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog. Argelander also devised a way of estimating stellar magnitudes, the subdivision of magnitudes into tenths, and the practice of assigning capital letters to variable stars.

    Argelander was born at Memel and studied at Königsberg, being drawn to astronomy by the lectures of Friedrich Bessel. In 1820 he was appointed assistant to Bessel in the Königsberg Observatory, and in 1823 chief of the observatory of Abo, Finland. In 1839 he moved finally to the university of Berlin.


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