# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-heckmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:14.226Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-heckmann"
name: "Otto Heckmann"
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description: "Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory. He actively contributed to the creation of the third issue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog. He also contributed to cosmology based on the fundamentals of general relativity, and in 1942 wrote the book Theorien der Kosmologie."
tagline: "German astronomer (1901–1983)"
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birthDate: "1901-06-23"
deathDate: "1983-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump