Joseph Helffrich

Joseph Helffrich (12 January 1890 in Mannheim, Baden – 1971) was a German astronomer.

He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-KÃÂ¶nigstuhl (KÃÂ¶nigstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg https://web.archive.org/web/20040623072916/http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/personnel/diss.phtml.

At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and during his time there Helffrich discovered a number of asteroids.

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* Helffrich, Joseph: Untersuchungen im Sternhaufen h Persei nach Aufnahmen mit dem Waltz-Reflektor der Heidelberger Sternwarte. Braun, Mannheim 1913, 23 S. (Heidelberg, Naturwiss.-math. Diss. v. 17. Nov. 1913)

* Schmadel, Lutz D.: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. 5th ed. Springer, Berlin 2003,

Joseph Helffrich

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