Johann Nepomuk Krieger
Johann Nepomuk Krieger (4 February 1865, Wiesenbach, Bavaria, Unterwiesenbach – 10 February 1902, Sanremo) was a draftsman and selenography, selenographer who produced detailed hand-drawn maps of the lunar surface at his Italian observatory. Biography Krieger was born on 4 February 1865 in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the son of a master brewer. At an early age he gained an interest in astronomy. He only received school education up to the age of 15, when he departed. However he gained an inheritance, and used the money to build an observatory in the suburbs of Munich. He had been inspired by the director of the Cologne Observatory, Hermann Klein, to make the study and observation of the Moon his life's work. Krieger decided to create a definitive map of the Moon. For this purpose he obtained a series of low-resolution negatives of the lunar surface that had been taken at the Lick Observatory, Lick and Paris Observatory, Paris observatory, observatories. He enlarged these images ...
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Wiesenbach, Bavaria
Wiesenbach is a municipality in the district of Günzburg (district), Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany. References

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