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PONIATOWSKI, JOSEPH ANTHONY (1763-1813)

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PONIATOWSKI, See also:JOSEPH See also:ANTHONY (1763-1813) , See also:Polish He entered the See also:Marseilles See also:observatory in 1789, and in 1819 See also:prince and See also:marshal of See also:France, son of See also:Andrew Poniatowski and the became the director of the new observatory at Marlia near countess See also:Theresa Kinsky, was See also:born at See also:Warsaw in 1763. Adopt- See also:Lucca, which he, See also:left in 1825 for the observatory of the museum See also:ing a military career, he joined the Imperial See also:army when See also:Austria at See also:Florence. Here he died on the 14th of See also:October 1831. declared See also:war against the See also:Turks in 1788, and distinguished Between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered See also:thirty-seven comets, one himself at the storming of Sabac on the 25th of See also:April, where of which (observed on the 26th of See also:November 1818) was named he was seriously wounded. Recalled by his See also:uncle See also:King Stanis- after J. F. See also:Encke, who determined its remarkably See also:short See also:period. laus when the Polish army was reorganized, he received the See also:rank See M. R. A. Henrion, Annuaire biographique, i. 288 (See also:Paris, 1834); of See also:major-See also:general, and subsequently that of See also:lieutenant-general, See also:Memoirs See also:Roy. Astron.

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Soc. v. 410; R. See also:Wolf, Geschichte der and devoted himself zealously to the improvement of the Astronomie, p. 709; J. C. See also:Poggendorff, Biog. lit. Handworterbuch.

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