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See also:GOLDSCHMIDT, See also:HERMANN (1802-1866) , See also:German painter and astronomer, was the son of a Jewish See also:merchant, and was See also:born at See also:Frankfort on the 17th of See also:June 1802. He for ten years assisted his See also:father in his business; but, his love of See also:art having been awakened while journeying in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, he in 1832 began the study of See also:painting at See also:Munich under See also:Cornelius and Schnorr, and in 1836 established himself at See also:Paris, where he painted a number of pictures of more than See also:average merit, among which may be mentioned the " Cumaean Sibyl " (1844); an " Offering to
See also:Venus " (1845); a " View of See also:Rome " (1849); the " See also:Death of Romeo and Juliet " (1857); and several Alpine landscapes. In 1847 he began to devote his See also:attention to See also:astronomy; and from 1852 to 1861 he discovered fourteen asteroids between See also:Mars and See also:Jupiter, on which See also:account he received the See also:grand astronomical See also:prize from the See also:Academy of Sciences. His observations of the protuberances on the See also:sun, made during the See also:total See also:eclipse on the loth of See also:July 186o, are included in the See also:work of Madler on the eclipse, published in 1861. Goldschmidt died at See also:Fontainebleau on the 26th of See also:August 1866.
End of Article: GOLDSCHMIDT, HERMANN (1802-1866)
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