Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai was a German astronomer.
Born in Braunschweig, Nicolai was educated at Göttingen. In 1812, he calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant to 40 decimal places. In 1816, he joined the Mannheim observatory where he... Wikipedia
Born: October 25, 1793, Braunschweig, Germany
Died: June 4, 1846 (age 52 years), Mannheim, Germany