Friedrich Karl Ginzel (26 February 1850 – 29 June 1926) was an Austrian
astronomer.[1][2]
From 1877 Ginzel worked at the observatory in
Vienna. In 1886, he became a member of the Königlichen Astronomischen Recheninstituts in Berlin, where he was offered a professorship in 1899.
In 1899 he published an important study on
solar and
lunar eclipses in classical antiquity.[3] His three-volume Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (1906–14; reprinted in 1958 and 2007) is still a standard work on calendars and ancient chronology although some sections are now outdated.[4]