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Johann Bayer
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Johann Bayer was a German lawyer who created a system for naming and mapping stars in the night sky. His work matters because his star-naming system, which uses Greek letters, is still used by astronomers today to identify stars in constellations.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johann
- Family name
- Bayer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Rain
- Place of death
- Augsburg
- Occupation
- cartographer
- Educated at
- University of Ingolstadt
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- astronomy
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- Johann Bayer
- date of death
- 1625-03-07
- date of birth
- 1572-01-01
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- Johann Bayer
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The constellation Orion in Bayer's Uranometria
Johann Bayer ( German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈbaɪɐ]; 1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer). He was born in Rain in 1572. In 1592, aged 20, he began his study of philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer, becoming legal adviser to the city council in 1612.
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