Article ID: CBB583833783

On the Zeiss Telescope Gifted by Adolf Hitler to the Rana of Nepal (2023)

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This paper is about a century-old 130-mm (5-inch) Zeiss refractor that is in the possession of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, India, and is on display in its Museum. The telescope is historical, being a gift from the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to Maharaja Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal in 1938. It turns out that this was not Adolf Hitler’s personal telescope as has been presumed by some, although he did have a similar 130-mm Zeiss telescope of his own. The Rana later passed his telescope on to his son Maharaja Bahadur Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, who presented it to the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in 1961.

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Authors & Contributors
Kärnfelt, Johan
Orchiston, Wayne
Cameron, Gary Leonard
Cederlof, Gunnel
Chinnici, Ileana
Ernst, Waltraud
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Social History of Medicine
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Publishers
University of Washington Press
Museum of Victoria
Springer
Iowa State University
Hali Publications Ltd.
Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes
Concepts
Telescopes
Instruments, astronomical
Astronomy
Astronomical observatories
Amateurs
Natural history
People
Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon
Heidegger, Martin
Secretan, Marc François Louis
Swarup, Govind
Buchanan, Francis (1762-1829)
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
India
Nepal
Bangladesh
Tibet
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Institutions
Lick Observatory
East India Company (English)
Washburn Observatory
Marseille Observatory
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