LAMONT

Johann Von (son of a custom-house officer, who d. 1816). b. Braemar, Aberdeen shire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. James’s monastery, Ratisbon; a istant astronomer at observatory of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen 1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S. 1852; profe or of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death; decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin 1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart 1824–71. d. Munich 6 Aug. 1879. bur. in churchyard at Bogenhausen. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl 208–12 (1880); Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x 358 (1880).