ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund, Freiherr von. Breslau 22.4.1812 — Breslau 16.3.1868. German Astronomer, also interested in Linguistics. Son of Karl Heinrich Sigismund von Rothkirch-Panthen (1785–1830), Prussian Lieutenant, and Charlotte Ernestine Frederike von Köckritz (1793–1852), of Silesian nobility. After Ritterakademie Liegnitz and Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau studies at Breslau. Began with law, but also took European and classical languages and mathematics and eventually astronomy. Worked as calculator in Breslau observatory. Member of Academia Leopoldina 1854. Unmarried.
Publications: “Über Ursprung und Sprache der Zigeuner”, Jahres-Bericht de Schlesischen Ges. für Vaterländische Kultur 33, Breslau 1855, 213-228?.
Sources: Th. Delsner, Jahresbericht der Schles. Ges. für vaterländische Cultur 1869, 291f.; German Wikipedia.
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