Took the first photograph, a daguerreotype, of a solar eclipse on 28 July 1851 at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The photograph required an eighty-four second exposure.
Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski
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Genealogy of Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski
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