A main-belt C-type asteroid,[4] it was discovered on 24 January 1914 by astronomer Adam Massinger at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany.

It was named by Max Wolf in honor of Adolf Berberich (1861–1920), a German astronomer.

[4] In the late 1990s, a network of astronomers worldwide gathered lightcurve data that was ultimately used to derive the spin states and shape models of 10 new asteroids, including (776) Berbericia.

[3][7] Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003.

The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999.