Carl Christian Bruhns
1830–81
German astronomer and meteorologist. Mechanic at the Berlin Observatory, 1851; second assistant, 1852; first assistant, 1854. Doctorate in astronomy, Berlin, 1858. Professor extraordinarius of astronomy, Leipzig, 1860; professor and director of the observatory on the death of his predecessor, August Ferdinand Möbius, 1868. Set up a network of meteorological stations from 1863, and the Meteorological Bureau for Weather Forecasts in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1878.
Sources
ADB (s.v. also Möbius, August Ferdinand
Leipzig Lexikon (leipzig-lexikon.de/biogramm/Bruhns_Carl_Christian.htm, accessed 27 May 2021)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 42 (1882): 147–8
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
