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Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck

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Czech astronomist and surveyor (1839-1910)

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Robert von Sterneck was a member of the Budweis Daublebsky von Sterneck baronial family who served as an Austro-Hungarian general major, geophysicist and astronomer.

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1905Knight of the Order of Leopold (Austria)
1899Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown (Austria)
1896Cothenius Medal

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Robert von Sterneck was a member of the Budweis Daublebsky von Sterneck baronial family who served as an Austro-Hungarian general major, geophysicist and astronomer. He studied in Prague and entered the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1859, participating in the Magenta und Solferino campaign that year and in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. From 1862 to 1880, he served head of the astronomical-geodetic section of the military geographic institute in Vienna, and from 1880 to 1902 as the head of the institute's astronomical observatory. He led numerous geodetic missions in the Balkans during the 1870s.

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Lived 1839 to 1910 · aged 71
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