Article ID: CBB001251326

Frederik Kaiser (1808--1872), een gekweld man met een missie (2011)

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Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan (Author)


Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Volume: 4, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 62-84
Publication date: 2011


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Lead article in a special issue on Frederik Kaiser and the Leiden Observatory.

Frederik Kaiser (1808-1872), a tormented man with a mission The Leiden astronomer Kaiser has been instrumental for the rise of Dutch astronomy in the late nineteenth-century. His career was impressive. In 1826, without any formal university education, he began at the Leiden Astronomical Observatory as an ordinary observer. Through his work in astronomy he obtained an honorary doctorate, which enabled him in 1838 to become director of the observatory. In 1844 he was appointed full professor and in the academic year 1857/1858 he even became Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. In 1860 he even saw the fulfillmentof his life-long dream: the opening of a brand new astronomical observatory. However, in spite of these obvious professional successes, Kaiser's personal life was full of melancholy. This paper investigates Kaiser's personality, using correspondence with his family, as well as testimonies written down by his students and other contemporaries. Among others, we demonstrate the way in which Kaiser used his personal network, as well as his fierce continuous -- and often publicly expressed -- complaining, as a successful strategy in establishing his new astronomical observatory.

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Article Lunteren, Frans van (2011) “God is groot en wij begrijpen Hem niet”: Kaisers populaire sterrenkunde en het einde van de fysiko-theologie. Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (pp. 85-104). unapi

Article Hooijmaijers, Hans (2011) Een passie voor precisie: Frederik Kaiser en het instrumentarium van de Leidse Sterrewacht. Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (pp. 105-126). unapi

Article Baneke, David (2011) Zwervende archieven: het Leidse Sterrewachtarchief in verleden, heden en toekomst. Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (pp. 127-132). unapi

Article Delft, Dirk van (2011) “Een dienblad met bonbons”: de restauratie van de Leidse Sterrewacht. Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis (pp. 133-136). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Berg, Robbert van den
Dekker, Elly
Hooijmaijers, Hans
Eling, Paul
Feitsma, A.
Gelder, Esther van
Journals
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Archives of Natural History
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Gewina
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Prometheus
Frisian
Primavera Pers
Springer
Concepts
Biographies
Astronomy
Medicine
Radio astronomy
Nobel Prizes
Epilepsy
People
Kaiser, Frederik
Bruin, Frans
Clusius, Carolus
Galen
Giraud, Bruno
Halbertsma, Justus Hiddes
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
18th century
Places
Netherlands
Leiden (Netherlands)
Paris (France)
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
Leiden Observatory
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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