Struve is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Astronomers

Struve family The Struve family (pronounced in German, in Russian) were a Baltic German noble family of Eastphalian origin and originated in Magdeburg, the family produced five generations of astronomers from the 18th to 20th centuries. Members of the family ...

* Jacob Struve (1755–1841) *

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (russian: link=no, Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. ''Vasily Yakovlevich Struve''; 15 April 1793 – ) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is bes ...

(1793–1864), son of Jacob *

Otto Wilhelm von Struve Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve (Отто Васильевич Струве ...

(1819–1905), son of Friedrich * Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve (Ludwig Struve, 1858–1920), son of Otto * Karl Hermann Struve (Hermann Struve, 1854–1920), son of Otto *

Otto Struve Otto Struve (August 12, 1897 – April 6, 1963) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве); however, he spent most o ...

(1897–1963), son of Ludwig *

Georg Hermann Struve Georg Otto Hermann Struve (russian: Георг Германович Струве; 29 December 1886 – 10 June 1933) was a German astronomer from the Struve family and the son of Hermann Struve. Georg was born in 1886 in Tsarskoye Selo – a fo ...

(Georg Struve, 1886–1933), son of Hermann * Wilfried Struve (1914–1992), son of Georg

Other people

Amand Struve Amand Yegorovich Struve (russian: Аманд Егорович Струве) (30 May 1835 – 12 September 1898) was a Baltic German military engineer and bridge specialist of Russian Empire. Struve's relatives included diplomats, engineers, ...

(1835–1898), Baltic German military engineer and bridge specialist *

Gleb Struve Gleb Petrovich Struve (Russian: Глеб Петрович Струве; 1 May 1898 – 4 June 1985) was a Russian poet and literary historian. Biography Gleb Petrovich Struve was born on 1 May 1898. His father was the political theorist Peter Berng ...

(1898–1985), Russian-American poet and literary historian, son of Peter *

Gustav Struve Gustav Struve, known as Gustav von Struve until he gave up his title (11 October 1805 in Munich, Bavaria – 21 August 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary), was a German surgeon, politician, lawyer and publicist, and a revolutionary during the Germa ...

(1805–1870), Southern German politician and revolutionary *

Henryk Struve Henryk Struve (also known as Florian Gąsiorowski) (1840–1912) was a Polish philosopher. He has been called "perhaps the most remarkable person in logic in Warsaw in the 19th century". Struve taught philosophy at Warsaw University The Univer ...

(1840–1912), Polish philosopher *

Karl de Struve Karl von Struve (26 November 1835 – 26 June 1907) (russian: Кирилл Васильевич Струве) (Alternate spelling in U.S.: de Struve) was a Russian nobleman and politician. He served, in turn, as Russian Envoy Extraordinary and Min ...

(1835–1907), Russian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Tokyo, Washington, and the Hague *

Nikita Struve Nikita Alexeyevich Struve (russian: Никита Алексеевич Струве; 16 February 1931 – 7 May 2016) was a French author and translator of Russian descent, specializing in the study of Russian émigrés. Biography Struve was part o ...

(1931–2016), Russian-French editor specializing in Russian literature, nephew of Gleb and grandson of Peter *

Peter Berngardovich Struve Peter (or Pyotr or Petr) Berngardovich Struve (russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве; pronounced ; 26 January 1870 in Perm – 22 February 1944 in Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher, historian and editor ...

(1870–1944), Russian political economist, philosopher and editor, grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm *

Stefan Struve Stefan Jaimy Struve (; born February 18, 1988) is a Dutch former mixed martial artist who competed as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). At , he is the tallest fighter in the history of the UFC. Background Growing up in th ...

(born 1988), Dutch mixed martial artist *

Vasily Vasilievich Struve Vasily Vasilievich Struve (russian: Василий Васильевич Струве) ( in Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 15, 1965 in Leningrad) was a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific scho ...

(1889–1965), Soviet Orientalist

Things named after the Struve astronomers

2227 Otto Struve 2227 Otto Struve, provisional designation , is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.7 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 13 September 1955, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Obse ...

, an asteroid named after Otto Struve *

Struve (crater) Struve is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located near the western extreme of the Oceanus Procellarum, close to the western lunar limb. As a consequence, even though it is roughly circular in outline, it appears oval due to ...

, a crater on the Moon *

Struve function In mathematics, the Struve functions , are solutions of the non-homogeneous Bessel's differential equation: : x^2 \frac + x \frac + \left (x^2 - \alpha^2 \right )y = \frac introduced by . The complex number α is the order of the Struve functio ...

s, named after Karl Hermann Struve *

Struve Geodetic Arc The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over , which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc. The chain was established ...

, a World Heritage Site *

Otto Struve Telescope The Otto Struve Telescope was the first major telescope to be built at McDonald Observatory. Located in the Davis Mountains in West Texas, the Otto Struve Telescope was designed by Warner & Swasey Company and constructed between 1933 and 1939 b ...

, a telescope of McDonald Observatory *

Struve Double Star Catalog Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (russian: link=no, Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. ''Vasily Yakovlevich Struve''; 15 April 1793 – ) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best ...

, compiled by F. G. W. Struve *

Struve 1341 HD 80606 and HD 80607 are two stars comprising a binary star system. They are approximately 217 light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Both stars orbit each other at an average distance of 1,200 astronomical units. The binar ...

, a binary star system with an extrasolar planet *

Struve 2398 Struve 2398 (Gliese 725) is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Draco. Struve 2398 is star number 2398 in the Struve Double Star Catalog of Baltic-German astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. The astronomer's ...

, a binary star system

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Things named after the Struve astronomers

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