Miklós Konkoly Thege (1842-1916)

Miklós Konkoly-Thege was born 20 January 1842 in Komárno, Komárno District, Nitra Region, Slovakia to Elek Konkoly-Thege (1813-1884) and Klára Földváry (1820-1903) and died 17 February 1916 Budapest, Hungary of unspecified causes. He married Erzsébet Madarassy (1842-1919) .

Miklós Konkoly-Thege was a Hungarian astronomer and land-owner noble.^[1] ^[2]

History

He studied astronomy and physics at the universities of Budapest (1857-1860) and Berlin (1860-1862).^[3] After his studies he continued to visit the observatories of Göttingen, Greenwich, Heidelberg and Paris. During 1871 Konkoly-Thege constructed a telescope within his castle-residence, and in 1874 constructed an observatory in his palace park within Ógyalla; observations from here were used by Radó Kövesligethy to produce the Ógyallan Catalogue of Spectra. ^[2]

Handbooks

Praktische Anleitung zur Anstellung astronomischer Beobachtungen mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Astrophysik, nebst einer modernen Instrumentenkunde, Braunschweig, 1883 ^[2]

Praktische Anleitung zur Himmelsphotographie nebst einer kurzgefassten Anleitung zur modernen photographischen Operation und der Spectralphotographie im Cabinet, Halle, 1887 ^[2]

Handbuch für Spectroscopiker in Cabinet und am Fernrohr. Halle, 1890 ^[2]

References

^ fsz.bme.hu retrieved 09:58
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE KONKOLY OBSERVATORY". Magda Vargha and Zoltán Kolláth. http://www.konkoly.hu/staff/kollath/thefirst.html. Retrieved 09:59 13/10/11.
^ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58793.html. Retrieved August 22, 2012.

Children

Offspring of Miklós Konkoly-Thege and Erzsébet Madarassy (1842-1919)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Ferenc Konkoly-Thege (1863-1871)
Elek Konkoly-Thege (1870-1870)

Residences

Siblings

Offspring of Elek Konkoly-Thege (1813-1884) and Klára Földváry (1820-1903)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Miklós Konkoly Thege (1842-1916)	20 January 1842 Komárno, Komárno District, Nitra Region, Slovakia	17 February 1916 Budapest, Hungary	Erzsébet Madarassy (1842-1919)

Footnotes (including sources)

Afil

[1] sz.bme.hu retrieved 09:58

[Magda_Vargha_and_Zoltán_Kolláth-_Astronomy_and_Geophysics_Vol_41(article_showing_eight_references-2] "THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE KONKOLY OBSERVATORY". Magda Vargha and Zoltán Kolláth. http://www.konkoly.hu/staff/kollath/thefirst.html. Retrieved 09:59 13/10/11.

[3] Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58793.html. Retrieved August 22, 2012.

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