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Hepperger zu Tirschtenberg und Hoffensthal, Josef vonHepperger zu Tirschtenberg und Hoffensthal, Josef von, b. Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol), Nov. 11, 1855, d. Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol), Sept. 12, 1928, astronomer, 1891 university professor in Graz, 1901 in Vienna, 1909-1928 director of the Vienna University observatory. Research on the comet Bicla (Prize of the Academy of Sciences); revised and edited the "Katalog von 26.060 Sternen", 1927 (by W. Oeltzen). Literature: Almanach der Ö. Akad. d. Wiss., 1929.
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