Guido Horn d'Arturo

Guido Horn d'Arturo (13 February 1879 – 1 April 1967) was an Italian <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian Empire. He obtained Italian citizenship after serving as a volunteer in the <a href="/facts/Italian_army/alAVho1b">Italian army</a> during the <a href="/facts/First_World_War/vITTUanQ">First World War</a>. To avoid being persecuted as an irredentist by the Austrian authorities, he officially added to his surname Horn that of "d'Arturo" which he used in the war.
He was director of the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna from 1921 to 1954, with an interruption of over six years following the persecution for fascist racial laws. In 1931 he founded the magazine Coelum for the dissemination of astronomy in the society.
The <a href="/facts/Asteroid/g7Ulr1VB">asteroid</a> <a href="/facts/List_of_minor_planets%3a_3001%25E2%2580%25934000/sYFCyGVB">3744</a>, discovered in 1983, bears the name "Horn-d'Arturo".

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Guido Horn d'Arturo