Freidrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

1793 - 1864  (71 years)

• Name	Freidrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
  Birth	15 Apr 1793	Altona, Holstein, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Nov 1864	St. Petersburg, Russia
  Person ID	I42295	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Jacob Struve,   b. 21 Nov 1755, Horst, Ducky of Holstein, Germany d. 2 Apr 1841 (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Maria Emerentia Wiese,   b. 8 Sep 1764   d. 14 Jul 1847 (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F24744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johanna Henriette Francisca Bartels,   b. 1807   d. 1867 (Age 60 years)
  Children	+ 1. Karl von Struve,   b. 26 Nov 1835, Tartu, Livonia, Russian Empire d. 26 Jun 1907 (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F24741	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist, best known for his observations of double stars. The Struve Geodetic Arc, a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, is named for him, as is the asteroid 768 Struveana. His grandson Pyotr Struve (1870-1944), son of his son Bernhard Struve, was one of the first Russian Marxists and, in 1898, wrote the first manifesto of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He left the party before its split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, becoming a constitutional liberal, and died in Paris in 1944.