Carl Theodor Albrecht (August 30, 1843,Dresden,Kingdom of Saxony – August 31, 1915) was a Germanastronomer.
He studied mathematics and natural sciences at theTU Dresden and theUniversität Berlin. During his time in Dresden, he helped foundingPolyhymnia, the fraternity that later became theGerman StudentCorps Altsachsen.He specialized ingeodesy, to which he devoted much of his career. He also worked on the problem of variation of latitude, building upon the work ofSeth Carlo Chandler who discovered the variation, known as theChandler wobble. In 1882, Carl Theodor Albrecht was elected as member of theGerman Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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