Johan Stein

Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein (27 February 1871–27 December 1951) was a Dutch astronomer and a member of the Society of Jesus.

In 1894 he finished a course of ecclesiastical philosophy, then studied astronomy at the University of Leyden.

[1] By the time he received his doctorate in 1901, he had begun teaching physics and math at the St. Willebrord College of Katwijk.

Thereafter he joined St. Ignatius College in Amsterdam, where he taught math and science for the next twenty years.

Queen Juliana made him a knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands.