ZENGER Carl Venceslas

Carl Venceslas Zenger was born 1830 December 17 at Komotau, Bohemia, and educated at the University of Prague. From 1851 to 1853 he was an Assistant at the Observatory; in 1853 he was appointed Professor in the Gymnasium at Keusohl, Hungary.
In 1861 he returned to Prague as Professor of Physics in the Polytechnic Institute. In 1864 he was appointed an ordinary Professor at the Technical High School, of which in 1872 he became Rector. In 1899 he became Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics.
He was a voluminous writer on Meteorology, Spectroscopy, and Astronomy. The majority of his papers appeared in the Comptes Rendus, and in the Journal of the Prague Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, but he contributed also a few to the Monthly Notices and to the Philosophical Magazine.
He died January 22nd, 1908.

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