It was discovered on 18 April 1915, by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany.
[12] The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.0–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,100 days).
[1] Several photometric light-curve analysis rendered a rotation period of 16.852±0.006 hours (best result) with a brightness variation of 0.18 in magnitude (U=3).
[9] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid's surface has a notably low albedo of less than 0.03, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derived a somewhat higher value of 0.04.
[3][5][6][4] The minor planet was named in honor of the Fenno-Swedish astronomer Hugo Gyldén (1841–1896), who was a director of the Stockholm Observatory.