Johann Georg Repsold - Hamburg, Deutschland
N 53° 33.034 E 009° 58.400
32U E 564485 N 5933960
Denkmal mit Büste für Johann Georg Repsold in Planten un Blomen direkt am Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Waymark Code: WMX42F
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 11/24/2017
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Monument with bust, designed 1833 by the architect Alexis de Chateauneuf, for Johann Georg Repsold in Planten un Blomen directly at the Museum of Hamburg History.
Johann Georg Repsold (September 19, 1770 – January 14, 1830) was a German astronomer.
He joined the fire brigade of Hamburg in 1799. In 1802 he began building a private observatory, and collaborated in astronomical observations with Heinrich Christian Schumacher. However the observatory was destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars in 1811. In 1825 a new observatory was completed at Stadtwall, and Repsold became the director, supplying the instruments at his own expense with other funding from the city of Hamburg.
In 1830 he died in the line of his firefighting duties.
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Text on the monument:
" Joh. Georg Repsold; Geb. Wremen 1770 Sep. 19 , Gest. Hamburg 1830 Jan. 14"
„Bekämpfend die Feuerbrunst von Trümmern erschlagen“
„Erfindungsreich waffnete er die Wissenschaft“
„Kühner Berufstreue dankbare Mitbürger“.