Background
Georg was born in 1886 in Tsarskoye Selo – a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 26 kilometers (16 mi) south from the center of Saint St. Petersburg.
Georg was born in 1886 in Tsarskoye Selo – a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 26 kilometers (16 mi) south from the center of Saint St. Petersburg.
After graduating from a gymnasium there, between 1905 and 1910 Struve studied at the University of Berlin and University of Heidelberg. After defending his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1910, he worked till 1914 at the observatories at Bohn Observatory and Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory, and between 1914 and 1919 at the Naval Observatory of Wilhelmshaven.
In 1895, his family moved to Königsberg. In 1919, he moved to the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory established by his father Hermann Struve. There, he studied celestial mechanics and continued the work of his father, analyzing movement of satellites of Saturn and Uranus.
Foreign the same purpose, in 1926 he went to Union Observatory in South Africa where he was very pleased with the quality of the obtained images.
Around 1930, he participated in the Eros campaign, where observations of an asteroid 433 Eros was used to determine the value of solar parallax. Struve also used United States observatories.
Georg Struve was married to Marie von Mokk, daughter of a Prussian general. They had two sons, Wilfried (born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1914 – died in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992) and Reinhardt.
Whereas Wilfried became a scientist working in astronomy and acoustics, Reinhardt died during the World World War II in 1943.
On May 28, 1933, Georg Struve was taken to the hospital with an acute pneumonia and died on June 10.