Joseph Helffrich
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Joseph Helffrich (* 12 January 1890 in Mannheim, Baden, † 1971) was a German astronomer.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg [1].
At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and during his time there Helffrich discovered a number of asteroids.
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- Helffrich, Joseph: Untersuchungen im Sternhaufen h Persei nach Aufnahmen mit dem Waltz-Reflektor der Heidelberger Sternwarte. Braun, Mannheim 1913, 23 S. (Heidelberg, Naturwiss.-math. Diss. v. 17. Nov. 1913)
- Schmadel, Lutz D.: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. 5th ed. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3540002383