He became director of the Berlin observatory in 1786, from which he retired in 1825.

Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ( initially filled by John Flamsteed ), to serve as the director of the observatory and to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.

While this was being constructed, von Miller was also working at the Zeiss factory with German astronomer Max Wolf, director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl observatory of the University of Heidelberg, on a new and novel design, inspired by Wallace W. Atwood's work at the Chicago Academy of Sciences and by the ideas of Walther Bauersfeld at Zeiss.

In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on Seeberg hill at Gotha, which was finished in 1791.

Schwarzschild became the director of the observatory in Göttingen.

The managing director of the observatory is Professor Simon Garrington.

The first director of Jodrell Bank was Bernard Lovell, who established the observatory in 1945.

Kapteyn later retired in 1921 at the age of seventy, but on the request of his former student and director of Leiden Observatory Willem de Sitter, Kapteyn went back to Leiden to assist in upgrading the observatory to contemporary astronomical standards.

The United States Government sent, 1 July 1905, a Jesuit from the observatory at Manila to erect a meteorological station on the island of Yap, of which station the Capuchin Father Callistus was appointed director.

Thence he passed on to Gotha as director of the Seeberg observatory ; nor could he be tempted to relinquish the post by successive invitations to replace F. G. W.

Having become assistant to Carlos Guillermo Moesta ( 1825 – 1884 ), director of the observatory at Santiago de Chile, in 1859, he was associated with the Chilean geodesic survey in 1864.

From 1813 to 1820, he taught at the university and observed at Dorpat Observatory, and in 1820 became a full professor and director of the observatory.

In 1822 he became director of the Seeberg observatory, and in 1825 was promoted to a corresponding position at Berlin, where a new observatory, built under his superintendence and with the support of Alexander von Humboldt and King Frederick William III of Prussia, was inaugurated in 1835.

Mostly on the recommendation of Bessel, Encke became director of the new observatory and secretary of the Academy of Sciences.

He still was director of the Berlin observatory until his death on 26 August 1865 in Spandau.

In 1851 he moved to Breslau ( today Wrocław ) to become professor of astronomy and the director of the local observatory.

The present ( 2010 ) director of the observatory is Dr. Kyle M. Cudworth.

Frank Hogg was director of the observatory from 1946 until his death in 1951.

There he meets the director of the observatory, Professor Decimus Phostle, who explains that the extra star is a meteor, a vast ball of fire making its way towards Earth, which will cause the end of the world tomorrow morning.

In 1935 he became professor at the observatory of the University of Leiden, where Ejnar Hertzsprung was the director.

He was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1919 – 1925, being assistant director of the solar physics observatory, 1920 – 1924, mathematical lecturer at Trinity, 1924 – 1925, and university lecturer in astrophysics, 1922 – 1925.

This paper at first attracted little attention, but Rudolf Wolf who was at that time the director of Bern observatory, was impressed so he began regular observations of sunspots.

After the war, he was engaged in construction of a solar observatory in Potsdam, the Einsteinturm, and he was director of the Einstein-Institut.

* 1963 – Karl Beattie, English director and producer

He was first introduced to biology by his brother Karl, 10 years older and, later, the director of the Zoological Museum of Hamburg.

** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.

Production personnel included Anton Bartsal ( stage director ), and Karl Valts ( scene designer ).

Kazan became known as an " actor's director " because he was able to elicit some of the best performances in the careers of many of his stars, such as Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, James Dean, Julie Harris, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach and Natalie Wood.

After a short tour of the United States, where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for La Tosca ( 1939 ), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of World War II.

* Carl Koch ( director ) ( 1892 – 1963 ), also spelled Karl Koch, German film director, writer

The author of the play, Reinhardt's friend and confidant Karl Vollmoeller, won the French director Michel-Antoine Carré to finish the shooting.

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson () ( born 17 January 1969 ) is a Swedish author and film director.

In 1978 Sammo Hung formed Gar Bo Motion Picture Company, a subsidiary of Golden Harvest, with director Karl Maka and former actor-choreographer Lau Kar Wing ( brother of actors Lau Kar-leung and Gordon Liu ).

Carl Koch or Karl Koch ( 30 July 1892 in Nümbrecht, Germany – 1 December 1963 in Barnet, England ) was a German film director and writer with many secondary credits including collaborations with his wife Lotte Reiniger, the animator of The Adventures of Prince Achmed ( 1926 ).

* Karl Jurman, musical director of The Lion King.

Lucy and Desi enlisted the services of Karl Freund, an Academy Award-winning cinematographer of such films as Metropolis ( 1927 ), Dracula ( 1931 ), and The Good Earth ( 1937 ), as well as director of The Mummy ( 1932 ), to be the series cinematographer.

He offered the position to Hans Richter in February, 1905, who declined, to Felix Mottl in November, who was previously engaged, and then to previous director Nikisch, who declined ; the post was finally offered to Karl Muck, who accepted and began his duties in October, 1906..

Mary Davenport Engberg was never the director of the Seattle Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony was not revived until 1926 under the direction of Karl Krueger.

* June 13 – Herbert von Karajan is announced as the new artistic director of the Vienna State Opera, to succeed Karl Böhm starting in September.

* May 3 – Karl Freund, cinematographer, who, as director of photography on I Love Lucy, developed the practical use of the three-camera TV sitcom production

His father, Karl Ludwig Nitzsch, at that time pastor and superintendent in Borna, later ( 1790 ) became professor at Wittenberg and director ( 1817 ) of the seminary for preachers.

* August 26 — Karl Wilhelm, choral director ( b. 1815 )

In the 1940s Fraenkel-Conrat visited his sister and brother-in-law, biochemist Karl Slotta, a pioneer in the study of progesterone, estriol, and medical use of venom, who was then director of the Chemical Institute of the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 1935 to 1948.

As Allied troops marched into Munich in April 1945 museum director Karl Bässler barely managed to keep the last standing bridge to Museum Island from being blown up by retreating German troops.

In Soviet times, the theater was renamed in honor of Karl Marx, but now carries the name of Ivan Slonov ( 1882 – 1945 ), an actor, theatrical director and educator, born in the city.

* Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.

The station began broadcasting from Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main on 1 April 1963, with a speech by the first director general ( Intendant ), Dr. Karl Holzamer.