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Feb 04, 1874 Sovetsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia Died on 20 Jan 1944 (aged 69)
German geodesist
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About Otto Eggert
- Paul Hermann Otto Eggert (born 4 February 1874 in Tilsit, d.
- January 20, 1944 in Gdansk) - German and Gdansk surveyor, professor of Gdansk University of Technology (Technische Hochschule Danzig) and Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in annual terms in office from 1909 to 1910 and from 1919 to 1920 and the first head of the Department of Geodesy at the Technical University of Gdansk (1904-1921), later professor at the Technical University of Berlin and its rector in the years 1933-1934, in 1936-1939, headed the Geodetic Institute in Potsdam (Preußisches Geodätisches Institute - nowadays: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences).
- In 1900 he received his doctorate in the field of surveying and environmental engineering at the Higher School of Agriculture in Berlin - now part of Humboldt University in Berlin (then: Study der Geodäsie und Kulturtechnik an der landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule Berlin), where he gained first experience in the field of advanced mathematical, geodetic and astronomical research.Since 1920 member of the Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina".
