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Russian-German astronomer

Georg Otto Hermann Struve (Russian:Георг Германович Струве; 29 December 1886 – 10 June 1933)^[1] was a German astronomer from theStruve family and the son ofHermann Struve.

Georg was born in 1886 inTsarskoye Selo – a formerRussian residence of theimperial family and visiting nobility, located 26 kilometers (16 mi) south from the center ofSt. Petersburg. In 1895, his family moved toKönigsberg. After graduating from a gymnasium there, between 1905 and 1910 Struve studied at theUniversity of Berlin andUniversity of Heidelberg. After defending his PhD thesis in 1910, he worked till 1914 at the observatories at Bohn Observatory andHamburg-Bergedorf Observatory, and between 1914 and 1919 at the Naval Observatory of Wilhelmshaven. In 1919, he moved to theBerlin-Babelsberg Observatory established by his fatherHermann Struve. There, he studiedcelestial mechanics and continued the work of his father, analyzing movement of satellites ofSaturn andUranus. For observation ofMoons of Saturn, in 1925 he visitedLick Observatory where he met his cousinOtto Struve. For the same purpose, in 1926 he went toUnion Observatory in South Africa where he was very pleased with the quality of the obtained images.^[2] Around 1930, he participated in the Eros campaign, where observations of anasteroid 433 Eros was used to determine the value of solarparallax. Struve also used US observatories. AtYerkes Observatory, he again met his cousin Otto and reanalyzed observations of the complex multiple star systemzeta Cancri by their grandfatherOtto Wilhelm von Struve.^[3]^[4]

Georg Struve was married to Marie von Mokk, daughter of a Prussian general. They had two sons, Wilfried (born inWilhelmshaven, Germany, 1914 – died inKarlsruhe, Germany, 1992)^[5] and Reinhardt. Whereas Wilfried became a scientist working in astronomy and acoustics, Reinhardt died during the World War II in 1943.^[2] On May 28, 1933, Georg Struve was taken to the hospital with an acute pneumonia and died on June 10.^[1]^[4]