A native of Magdeburg, Boguslawski met Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was an observatory director in Berlin and published the celestial atlas Uranographia, at the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin between 1811–12, when Boguslawski did his military service.
It received this designation when the star was catalogued by Bode in his Uranographia.
It is also known by the proper name Minchir, and appears as Minchir es-schudscha