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News, dates, and meetings of interest to the history of astronomy and the working group
Upcoming dates:
2022, September 16 -18, Bremen:
Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
Instrumente, Methoden und Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;
Meeting of the members of the workung group (election of president and secretary)
News
2022, April:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 52 have been published (in German)
2021, December:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 51 have been published (in German)
2021, November
Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann, former director of the Archenhold-Observatory, Berlin,
died at the age of 82.
Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann was a member of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the
German Astronmical Society
Obituary of the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin (in German)
Obituary of the German Astronmical Society (in German)
2021 September:
Virtual Splintermeeting at the AG meeting between September 13 - 17, 2021,
Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy,
organized by Susanne M Hoffmann and Gudrun Wolfschmidt
This meeting replaces the colloquium 2021.
2021, September
The proceedings of the Splinter Meeting of the working group
"Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy"
held during the virtual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 have been published:
Nuncius Hamburgensis; Vol. 55
2021, June
Vol. 67 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
Günther Oestmann, Jürgen Hamel: 625 Jahre astronomische Uhr in St. Nikolai zu Stralsund –
Himmelskunde und Weltbild im Mittelalter
Older News and Meetings
2022, May 7, Jena:
Small colloquium on the 450th anniversary of Kepler.
Meeting location: restaurant and hotel "Haus im Sack", Jena, Oberlauengasse 14-17
This is the originally in November 2021 planned meeting that had to be cancelled
due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The program is 
available here . (in German)
2021, May:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 50 have been published (in German)
2020, September:
The Simon Marius Gesellschaft has published a short video on Simon Marius, his life and his research.
2020, August 30 and 31, Berlin:
planned but then cancelled colloquium of the working group
Entscheidende Ereignisse/Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
(in German)
( cancel notification see Mitt. Nr. 48a (in German))
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