Lyndhagen Daniel Georg

(27.07.1819 - 05.05.1906)

Swedish astronomer, indispensable secretary (1866 - 1901) of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Born in the town of Askeby, Östergötland County near Stockholm.

He studied at Uppsala University, in which at the end of the course he was left as an assistant professor of astronomy. In 1849 he was invited to the Pulkovo Observatory, where he worked until 1856, participated in a large Russian degree measurement of the arc of the meridian. He married the daughter of V.Ya. Struve.
Upon returning to his homeland, he was elected a member of the Academy and its permanent secretary. Of the numerous writings of Lindhagen, published in the editions of the St. Petersburg and Stockholm Academies of Sciences, they are particularly famous: "On the Theory of Earth Refraction" (1856) and "The Story of a Trip to Northern Spain in the Summer of 1860 to Observe a Total Solar Eclipse" (1860). Lindhagen also wrote a popular science book in Swedish: Fundamentals of Astronomy (Stockholm, 1858–1861).
He died in Stockholm.

Cape, the eastern entrance to the Bay of Lindhagen, the island of Northeastern Land, Svalbard. The coordinates are 80° 10'N   20° 20'E.

Glacier southwest of Lindhagen Bay on the island of Northeastern Land, Svalbard. The coordinates are 80° 10'N   20° 20'E.

Bay in the north of the island of Northeastern Land, Svalbard. The coordinates are 80° 10'N   20° 20'E.