Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 – 5 April 1947) was aSwedish–Danishastronomer.
Strömgren was born in 1870 inHelsingborg, in theScania province ofSweden. He received his doctorate atLund University in 1898, becomingdocent there the same year. He worked at theUniversity of Kiel from 1901, and assisted in the publication ofAstronomische Nachrichten from 1901 to 1904.[1] He became Professor of Astronomy and director of theCopenhagen Observatory of theUniversity of Copenhagen in 1907. He died inCopenhagen in 1947. The minor planet1422 Strömgrenia was named in his honour.
Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested intheoretical astronomy andcelestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits ofcomets. He also worked on the calculations forJens Olsen's World Clock after 1928.
His spouse, the dentist and writerHedvig Lidforss (1877–1967), was daughter of the philologistEdvard Lidforss in Lund, and sister of the publicist and botanistBengt Lidforss. Elis Strömgren's sons were the astronomerBengt Strömgren, who succeeded his father in Copenhagen in 1940 and Erik Strömgren notable danish psychiatrist.
