Moritz Löw,

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; born at

Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...

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, in 1841; died in

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, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of

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and

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, and received his

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degree from the

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(1867). After graduating he became an assistant at the Leipzig observatory, and in 1883 was appointed section chief in the Prussian geodetic institute at Berlin, with the title of professor. Löw's principal works are: ''Elemente der Planeten''; ''Einfluss der Verbesserten Sternörter auf die Polhöhen der Gradmessung in Ostpreussen''; ''Polhöhe von Helgoland''; ''Zur Theorie der Passage-Instrumente im Ersten Vertikal''; ''Astronomisch-Geodätische Ortsbestimmungen im Harz''; and ''Polhöhebestimmungen im Harzgebirge Ausgeführt 1887-91.''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Low, Moritz 1841 births 1900 deaths People from Makó Hungarian Jews 19th-century Hungarian astronomers