Julius Bauschinger

He studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, graduating under the direction of Hugo Hans von Seeliger with a thesis titled "Studies on the motion of the planet Mercury" (1884).

In 1882, he was part of a German expedition to Hartford, Connecticut, in order to observe the transit of Venus.

In 1896, he was named director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut and professor of theoretical astronomy in Berlin, a position he held until 1909, when he became director of the Strasbourg observatory.

Bauschinger was dissertation advisor for Alfred Wegener's 1905 doctoral thesis in astronomy.

The minor planet 2306, discovered in 1939, has been named after Bauschinger.