Hermann Kobold

Hermann Kobold (5 August 1858 – 11 June 1942) was a German astronomer.

From 1877 to 1880, he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen and attained a doctorate in astronomy in July 1880 with Wilhelm Klinkerfues as his adviser.

Subsequently, he was an assistant at the private observatory of Miklos von Konkoly-Thege in Ógyalla, Hungary (now Hurbanovo, Slovakia).

In 1887, Kobold was appointed to the observatory in Strasbourg, France (German Empire at the time).

An asteroid discovered by Karl William Reinmuth received the name 1164 Kobolda in Kobold's honor in the 1930s.