Family Traditions
Jacob Struve once expressed his attitude to life in his letter to Friedrich, which characterizes the family spirit
A teneris adsuescere multum est. Wir Struve können nicht ohne anhaltende Arbeit vergnügt leben, weil wir von frühester Jugend an uns überzeugt haben, daß sie die nützlichste und beste Würze des Menschenlebens ist. (We, Struve, can not live happily without continuous work, because from the young age we learn that it is the most useful and best virtue of human life.)During the astronomical observations, members of the Struve family wore the beobachtungskäppchen or "cap for observation", which was made for the husband by his bride. The cap was handmade from red velvet and had golden threads embedded around it. The number of threads corresponded to the generation, so Friedrich Georg Wilhelm had one and Georg Hermann four.
| Jacob (1755–1841) Mathematician |
Anton Sebastian President of the Imperial Diet |
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| Carl (1785–1838) Philologist |
Ernst (1786–1822) |
Gustav (1788–1829) |
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793–1864) Astronomer |
Ludwig (1795–1828) Anatomist |
Johann Christoph Gustav (1763–1828) Diplomat |
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| Otto Wilhelm (1819–1905) Astronomer |
Genrikh (1822–1908) Chemist |
Berngard (1827–1889) Russian governor |
Karl (1835–1907) Politician |
Johann Ludwig (1812–1898) |
Gustav (1805–1870) Politician |
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| Karl Hermann (1854–1920) Astronomer |
Gustav Ludwig (1858–1920) Astronomer |
Vasily Berngardovich (1854–1912) Mathematician |
Peter Berngardovich (1870–1944) Revolutionary |
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| Georg Hermann (1886–1933) Astronomer |
Otto (1897–1963) Astronomer |
Vasily Vasilevich (1889–1965) Historian |
Gleb (1898–1985) Poet |
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| Wilfried (1914–1992) Astronomer |
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