Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (* 25. October 1793 Braunschweig † 04. June 1846 Mannheim) was a German astronomer, who got educated by Gauß in mathematics in Göttingen. He became assistant and later vice director of the observatory in Seeburg next to Bernhard von Lindenau . He reported to Gauß about the conditions of the observatory during the French Independence Wars, before leaving to the observatory in Mannheim in 1816.

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