Hermann Carl Vogel

Hermann Carl Vogel was a German astrophysicist. He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. From 1882 to 1907 he was director of the Astrophysical Observatory, Potsdam. He made extensive discoveries using spectral analysis of the stars.

Vogel was born in 1841 in Leipzig. His father was director of the united Brgerschulen and founder of the Realschule in Leipzig. His siblings included Eduard Vogel , Africa explorer and astronomer Elise Polko , poet and singer and Julie Dohmke , writer, publisher, translator. In 1862, Vogel began his studies at the Polytechnikum in Dresden and in 1863 went to University of Leipzig. In Leipzig he was assistant to Karl Christian Bruhns and took part in measurements of double stars carried out by Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf Engelmann.

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