* Astronomy

Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (28 May 1788 - 21 December 1862) was a German astronomer.
Rümker served as a midshipman in the British East India Company and then in the British merchant navy from 1811 until 1817, where he met Austrian astronomer Baron Franz-Xaver de Zach, who influenced Rümker to study astronomy.
In 1821 Rümker went to New South Wales as astronomer at the observatory built at Parramatta by Sir Thomas Brisbane. James Dunlop was second assistant. Rümker was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Astronomical Society together with £100, for his re-discovery of Comet Encke on 2 June 1822 and also received the gold medal of the Institut de France.
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