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Franz Xaver Zach was born on 4 June 1754 in Pesth, Hungary.
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Franz Xaver Zach was born on 4 June 1754 in Pesth, Hungary.
Franz Xaver Zach was educated at a Jesuit seminary.
He taught at the University of Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). He lived in Paris in 1780–83, and in London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the Saxon ambassador, Hans Moritz von Brühl. In Paris and London he entered the circles of astronomers like Joseph de Lalande, Pierre-Simon Laplace and William Herschel. In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on Seeberg hill at Gotha, which was finished in 1791. At the close of the 18th century, he organised the "Celestial Police", a group of twenty-four astronomers, to prepare for a systematic search for the "missing planet" predicted by the Titius-Bode law between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was discovered by accident just as the search was getting underway. Using predictions made of the position of Ceres by Carl Friedrich Gauss, on 31 December 1801/1 January 1802, Zach (and, independently one night later, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers) recovered Ceres after it was lost during its passage behind the Sun. After the death of the duke in 1804, Zach accompanied the duke's widow on her travels in the south of Europe, and the two settled in Genoa in 1815 where he directed an observatory. He moved back to Paris in 1827 and died there in 1832.
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He was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1794, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1798, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804, and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1832.
Zach was a very colourful character, travelled across many states in a time of radical changes and had connections with many colleagues and public figures.
When Zach’s patron, Ernest II, died in 1804, support for the observatory ended, but Zach was made chamberlain to the duke’s widow, Charlotte. They left Gotha, were secretly married, and in 1809 settled in Marseille.