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BornBerlin, (Germany), 4 Jan 1797

DiedBerlin, (Germany), 27 Pace 1850

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Astronomer; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Michael Beer, the poet; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1797; died there March 27, 1850. Wilhelm shared with his brothers the advantages of a liberal and modern education. At the age of sixteen he joined the ranks of the volunteers and took part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1815 against Napoleon. He did not remain long in the military service, but entered the banking-house of his father, whom he succeeded after the death of the latter in 1826. His leisure hours were devoted to the study of astronomy under the guidance of his friend J. H. Mädler, with whose assistance he erected and equipped an excellent private observatory at his villa in the Thiergarten, Berlin.

Beer and Mädler together made a number of observations of the planet Mars during the oppositions of 1828, 1832, 1835, and 1837, and published the results of the first series under the title "Physische Beobachtungen des Mars in der Erdnähe," in 1830. Their most important work was a map of the moon, "Mappa selenographica totam lunæ hemisphæram visibilem complectens observata," in four sheets (Berlin, 1834-36). This map was incomparably superior to anything of its kind previously attempted, being executed with the utmost care and representin

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Wilhelm Beer

Prussian astronomer and banker

Wilhelm Beer
Wilhelm Beer
Born	(1797-01-04)4 January 1797 Berlin, Prussia
Died	27 March 1850(1850-03-27) (aged 53) Berlin, Prussia
Scientific career
Fields	astronomy

Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.^[1]

Astronomy

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Beer's fame derives from his hobby, astronomy. He built a private observatory with a 9.5 cm refractor in Tiergarten, Berlin. Together with Johann Heinrich Mädler he produced the first exact map of the Moon (entitled Mappa Selenographica) in 1834–1836, and in 1837 published a description of the Moon (Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhältnissen). Both remained the best descriptions of the Moon for many decades.

In 1830, Beer and Mädler created the first globe of the planet Mars. In 1840 they made a map of Mars and calculated its rotation period to be 24 h 37 min 22.7 s, only 0.1 seconds different from the actual period as it is known today.

Other work

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In addition to his hobby of astronomy, he helped with the establishment of a railway system in Prussia, and promoted the Jewish community in Berlin. In his