Friedrich Karl Ginzel

Friedrich Karl Ginzel (26 February 1850, Reichenberg, Bohemia - 29 June 1926, Berlin) was an Austrian astronomer. [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1926AN....228..335N P.V. Neugebauer, "Friedrich Karl Ginzel", "Astronomische Nachrichten", 228 (1926), 335-336] .] [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1926Obs....49..344 "F.K. Ginzel", "The Observatory", 49 (1926), 348] .]

From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in Vienna. In 1886 he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899.

In 1899 he published an important study on solar and lunar eclipses in classical antiquity. [F.K. Ginzel, "Spezieller Kanon der Sonnen- und Mondfinsternisse fur das Landergebiet der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften und dem Zeitraum von 900 vor Chr. bis 600 nach Chr." (Berlin: Mayer & Muller, 1899).] His three-volume "Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie" (1906-14; reprinted in 1958 and 2007) is still a standard work on calendars and ancient chronology although some sections are now outdated.

The lunar crater Ginzel was named after him.

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