Discovered in 1911 by Johann Palisa, the asteroid was named after one of the Imperial Observatory in Vienna's major benefactors, Albert Salomon von Rothschild, who had died some months before.
Albert Einstein | Royal Albert Hall | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Victoria and Albert Museum | Otto von Bismarck | Rothschild family | Albert Camus | Prince Albert | Albert Park | Alexander von Humboldt | Albert Speer | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Albert Schweitzer | Albert, Prince Consort | Albert Campion | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | Rothschild | John von Neumann | Albert | Lars von Trier | Ferdinand von Mueller | Albert Park, Victoria | Paul von Hindenburg | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Albert II, Prince of Monaco | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Albert Bierstadt |