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Prussian geodesist and general (1794–1885)
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Johann Jacob Baeyer
Johann Jacob Baeyer, painted by Paul Stankiewicz
Born5 November 1794
Berlin
Died10 September 1885
Berlin

Johann Jacob Baeyer (born 5 November 1794 in Berlin, died 10 September 1885 in Berlin) was a German geodesist and a lieutenant-general in the Royal Prussian Army. He was the first director of the Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute and is regarded as the founder of the International Association of Geodesy. He was the father of the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Adolf von Baeyer. Baeyer was a Lutheran.

Memorial stone for Baeyer in Berlin-Müggelheim

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References

  1. Siegmund Günther (1902), "Baeyer, Johann Jakob", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 46, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 281–287
  2. Fritz Mühlig (1953), "Baeyer, Johann Jakob", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 536–537; (full text online)
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