Friedrich Karl Ginzel (26 February 1850 – 29 June 1926) was an Austrian

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. From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in

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. In 1886, he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899. In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in classical antiquity. His three-volume ''Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie'' (1906–14; reprinted in 1958 and 2007) is still a standard work on calendars and ancient chronology although some sections are now outdated. He was awarded the

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by the

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in 1884 for his work on solar eclipses. The lunar crater Ginzel was named after him.

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* 1850 births 1926 deaths 19th-century Austrian astronomers Scientists from Liberec Austrian people of German Bohemian descent 20th-century Austrian astronomers {{Europe-astronomer-stub