Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
Alfred WolferAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Mark Birkinshaw