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In 1845, he obtained a position as an assistant at the private Benzenberg observatory in Bilk near Düsseldorf, but a year later joined the Bonn Observatory under Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.
1859 - Durchmusterung astronomical survey begins at the Bonn Observatory.