Moritz Löw,
astronomer; born at
Makó,
Hungary, in 1841; died in
Steglitz,
Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of
Leipzig and
Vienna, and received his
Ph.D. degree from the
University of Budapest (1867). After graduating he became an assistant at the Leipzig observatory, and in 1883 was appointed section chief in the Prussian geodetic institute at Berlin, with the title of professor.