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Otto Tetens (1865-09-26, Rendsburg, Germany – 1945-02-15, Teplitz-Schönau) was a German natural scientist with an astronomer background. == Life == Tetens was the son of a high ranked police officer in Schleswig, Northern Germany. He went to several universities for different natural science topics in Tübingen, Munich, Berlin and Kiel. After this period, he worked at the private astronomy observatory of Miklos Konkly-Thege in Ogyalla in Hungary. In 1891 he got his Doctor degree of Natural Science. He then worked at different institutes in astronomy such as the Deutsche Seewarte, Hamburg, and the Observatory of Strasbourg.〔Source: Family records now owned by C. Niggemann〕 From 1902 to 1905 Otto Tetens worked for the Royal Society of Science of Göttingen on a climate project in Samoa, then a German colony. He founded the Apia Observatory in June 1902 at Mulinuu near the main town of Apia. After his time in Samoa, he went back to Germany and Göttingen to work on his reports for the previous three years and then took an occupation at the Royal Astronomy Observatory in Kiel, Germany.〔Ergebnisse Der Arbeiten Des Samoa-Observatoriums ... II. Die Meteorologischen Registrierungen Der Jahre 1902-1906 ... Mit 3 Tafeln und 25 in Den Text Gedruckten FigurenReport Otto Tetens und Franz Linke〕 From 1909 to 1931 Tetens worked at the meteorological observatory in Lindenberg, Germany (south-east of Berlin) as chief-observer. After retirement he moved to Bad Saarow, some 10 km away from Lindenberg and lived at his house in () Seestrasse] at the Lake Scharmützelsee.〔Hans Steinhagen: Lindenberger Himmelsjäger, published in Arkana-Verlag Göttingen〕 He died in 1945 while staying at a sanatorium in Teplitz-Schönau. His wife Dorothee Heimrod, daughter of the Council of the USA in Samoa and later Switzerland, moved back to the USA in 1947 and died 1962 in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otto Tetens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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