Gottfried Heinsius

Gottfried Heinsius (April, 1709 – May 21, 1769) was a German mathematician, geographer and astronomer.

[1] He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus.

Professor Heinsius may have been the first to publish an announcement about the return of Halley's comet in 1759.

[4] While in Russia, he was given the task to provide the Russian Tsar Ivan VI with a horoscope.

This article about a German astronomer is a stub.

Gottfried Heinsius, engraving, 1754
Illustration about Observationes circa phasin [!] Saturni rotundam from Acta Eruditorum , 1761
Illustration about Diiudicatio [!] casuum determinatorum... from Acta Eruditorum , 1756