Hermann Kobold (5 August 1858 – 11 June 1942) was a Germanastronomer.
Hermann Albert Kobold was born inHanover,Kingdom of Hanover, the third of five children of the carpenter August Kobold and his wife Dorothea Kobold (née Brandt). From 1877 to 1880, he studied mathematics and natural sciences at theUniversity of Göttingen and attained a doctorate in astronomy in July 1880 withWilhelm Klinkerfues as his adviser.
Subsequently, he was an assistant at the private observatory ofMiklos von Konkoly-Thege in Ógyalla, Hungary (nowHurbanovo,Slovakia). After the participation in an expedition to observe the 1882transit of Venus inAiken, South Carolina, he worked in Berlin some years analysing data from the observation.
In 1887, Kobold was appointed to the observatory inStrasbourg, France (German Empire at the time). That same year, he married Dorothea Brandt, with whom he had five children. In 1888, he became a private lecturer and in 1900extraordinary professor (außerordentlicher Professor) at theUniversity of Strasbourg; two years later, he went to theUniversity of Kiel as an observator and extraordinary professor.
By intensive observations he discovered 22 previously unknown, smaller galaxies of the Coma galaxy cluster.
From 1908 to 1938, he was the publisher of the astronomy journalAstronomische Nachrichten. An asteroid discovered byKarl William Reinmuth received the name1164 Kobolda in Kobold's honor in the 1930s.
On 11 June 1942, Kobold died inKiel, Germany.
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