In 1711 the first observatory was built in Dorotheen Street in Berlin and in 1835 a new observatory building, which was designed by the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was completed in Linden Street (near Hallesches Tor).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology | Potsdam | Art Institute of Chicago | Institute for Advanced Study | American Institute of Architects | Georgia Institute of Technology | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology | Franklin Institute | Royal Institute of Technology | Pasteur Institute | Institute of Contemporary Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Film Institute | Pratt Institute | National Cancer Institute | Virginia Military Institute | Cato Institute | Australian Institute of Sport | Illinois Institute of Technology | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Curtis Institute of Music | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Royal Institute of British Architects | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education | Leibniz | Institute of Physics |
After working at the GDR Center for Research and Technology in Microelectronics (now the ZMDI semiconductor company) and the Institute for Nuclear Research (now Helmholtz-Zentrum) in Dresden and the Institute for Astrophysics (now Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam) in Potsdam, he returned to the University of Jena where he was appointed extraordinary Professor in 1999.