Editing August Ferdinand Möbius (section)

==Life and education==
Möbius was born in [[Schulpforta]], [[Electorate of Saxony]], and was descended on his mother's side from religious reformer [[Martin Luther]].<ref>{{cite book |author=George Szpiro |authorlink=George Szpiro |title=Poincaré's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles |year=2007 |publisher=[[Plume (publisher)|Plume]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/poincarsprizehun0000szpi/page/66 66] |isbn=978-0-525-95024-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/poincarsprizehun0000szpi/page/66 }}</ref> He was home-schooled until he was 13, when he attended the college in Schulpforta in 1803, and studied there, graduating in 1809. He then enrolled at the University of Leipzig, where he studied astronomy under the mathematician and astronomer [[Karl Mollweide]].<ref name="st-andrews1">{{cite book |title=August Ferdinand Möbius |publisher=University of St Andrews, Scotland |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mobius.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330205503/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mobius.html |archive-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> In 1813, he began to study astronomy under mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] at the [[University of Göttingen]], while Gauss was the director of the [[Göttingen Observatory]].  From there, he went to study with Carl Gauss's instructor, [[Johann Pfaff]], at the [[University of Halle]], where he completed his doctoral thesis ''The occultation of fixed stars'' in 1815.<ref name="st-andrews1"/> In 1816, he was appointed  as Extraordinary Professor to the "chair of astronomy and higher mechanics" at the University of Leipzig.<ref name="st-andrews1"/> Möbius died in [[Leipzig]] in 1868 at the age of 77. 

His son [[Theodor Möbius|Theodor]] was a noted [[philology|philologist]].