Friedrich Simon Archenhold
Friedrich Simon Archenhold was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory in Berlin-Treptow. He graduated from the Realgymnasium in Lippstadt before entering Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1882, where he and Wilhelm Förster founded the Urania Society at the Berlin University Observatory.
Friedrich Simon Archenhold.
Archenhold Observatory at Berlin totday, the building is the original one from 1908.
In Archenhold's observatory, Einstein spoke publicly about his yet unpublished theory of general relativity.
The Archenhold Observatory was named in honour of Friedrich Simon Archenhold, is an observatory in Berlin-Treptow. It houses the Großer Refraktor, which is the longest pointable telescope in the world. It is also called Die Himmelskanone.
Archenhold Observatory
The Great Refractor at the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin 1896
Participants of the IIIrd World Festival of Youth and Students visit the Archenhold Observatory in August 1951
The telescope among the buildings.