Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen was a Bavarian physician and astronomer. He taught medical students before becoming a professor of astronomy at the University of Munich in 1826. During his period of medical studies and instruction, he was noted for his contributions to urology and lithotrity. He developed ideas on safer methods to remove bladder stones transurethrally, and his instruments served as models for subsequent devices.

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  • Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen was a Bavarian physician and astronomer. He taught medical students before becoming a professor of astronomy at the University of Munich in 1826. During his period of medical studies and instruction, he was noted for his contributions to urology and lithotrity. He developed ideas on safer methods to remove bladder stones transurethrally, and his instruments served as models for subsequent devices. Like others before and since his time, Gruithuisen believed that the Earth's moon was inhabitable. He made multiple observations of the lunar surface that supported his beliefs, including his announcement of the discovery of a city in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater he named the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting telescope he was using, could be perceived as resembling buildings complete with streets. He published his observations in 1824, but they were greeted with much skepticism by other astronomers of the time. His claims were readily refuted using more powerful instruments. He is also noted for the discovery of bright caps on the cusps of the crescent Venus, and for being the first to suggest that craters on the Moon were caused by meteorite impacts. He proposed that jungles on Venus grew more rapidly than in Brazil due to the proximity of the planet to the Sun, and that as a consequence the inhabitants celebrated fire festivals— the cause of the bright caps on Venus. The crater Gruithuisen on the Moon is named after him. He lived at 24 Brienner Straße in Munich shortly before his death.
  • Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (spr. chreut-heusen), war ein deutscher Astronom und Naturkundler. Gruithuisen diente als Feldchirurg in der österreichischen Armee, studierte ab 1801 in Landshut Philosophie und Medizin, wurde 1808 Professor der Physik in Hofwyl, dann in München zunächst Lehrer der Naturkunde und ab 1826 Professor der Astronomie. Der Mondkrater Gruithuisen und dadurch auch mehrere Schildvulkane auf dem Mond sind nach Franz von Paula Gruithuisen benannt.
  • Франц фон Паула Груйтуйзен - німецький астроном, один з піонерів дослідження Місяця. Вперше помітив і замалював нестаціонарний об'єкт на Місяці - так зване Місто Груйтуйзена. На честь Груйтуйзена названо кратер на Місяці - Кратер Груйтуйзена.
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  • Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen was a Bavarian physician and astronomer. He taught medical students before becoming a professor of astronomy at the University of Munich in 1826. During his period of medical studies and instruction, he was noted for his contributions to urology and lithotrity. He developed ideas on safer methods to remove bladder stones transurethrally, and his instruments served as models for subsequent devices.
  • Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (spr. chreut-heusen), war ein deutscher Astronom und Naturkundler. Gruithuisen diente als Feldchirurg in der österreichischen Armee, studierte ab 1801 in Landshut Philosophie und Medizin, wurde 1808 Professor der Physik in Hofwyl, dann in München zunächst Lehrer der Naturkunde und ab 1826 Professor der Astronomie. Der Mondkrater Gruithuisen und dadurch auch mehrere Schildvulkane auf dem Mond sind nach Franz von Paula Gruithuisen benannt.
  • Франц фон Паула Груйтуйзен - німецький астроном, один з піонерів дослідження Місяця. Вперше помітив і замалював нестаціонарний об'єкт на Місяці - так зване Місто Груйтуйзена. На честь Груйтуйзена названо кратер на Місяці - Кратер Груйтуйзена.
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  • Franz von Gruithuisen
  • Franz von Paula Gruithuisen
  • Франц фон Паула Груйтуйзен
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