Carl Christian Bruhns (1830–81)

German astronomer and meteorologist. Mechanic at the Berlin Observatory, 1851; second assistant, 1852; first assistant, 1854. Doctorate in astronomy, Berlin, 1858. Professor extraordinarius of astronomy, Leipzig, 1860; professor and director of the observatory on the death of his predecessor, August Ferdinand Möbius, 1868. Set up a network of meteorological stations from 1863, and the Meteorological Bureau for Weather Forecasts in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1878.