Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz
Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz | |
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Professor Ludwig Schwarz, circa 1890 | |
| Born | 4 June 1822 Danzig-Gdańsk |
| Died | 29 September 1894 (aged 72) St. George's? |
| Awards | Konstantin Gold Medal Demidov Prize (1865) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy, geodesy |
| Institutions | Imperial University of Dorpat |
Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz (Julian, O.S.: 23 May 1822, Danzig-Gdańsk – 17 September 1894, St. George's?, buried in Tartu)(Gregorian, N.S.: 4 June 1822 – 29 September 1894), referred to mostly as Ludwig Schwarz, was a Baltic German astronomer of Imperial Russia, explorer, and professor of astronomy at the University of Dorpat honored with the Konstantin Medal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Schwarz also was a recipient of the Demidov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in 1865 for his work in geodesy.