Name Joseph Helffrich Role Astronomer | Died 1917 | |
Discovered 713 Luscinia, 702 Alauda, 714 Ulula, 699 Hela | ||
Joseph Helffrich (12 January 1890 in Mannheim, Baden – 1971) was a German astronomer.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg [1].
At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and during his time there Helffrich discovered a number of asteroids.
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