| Authorised form of name | Hansteen; Christopher (1784 - 1873) |
| Dates | 1784 - 1873 |
| Place of birth | Christiania, Norway |
| Date of birth | 26 September 1784 |
| Place of death | Christiania, Norway |
| Date of death | 11 or 15 April 1873 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Astronomy |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 30/05/1839 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1875-1876 vol 24 pp v-vii
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 15 April 1873 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/15520384 |
| Code | NA4001 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| M/094 | Hansteen, Christopher | 1856 |
| EC/1839/28 | Hansteen, Christopher: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/3/174 | Letter from Christopher Hansteen, Christiania, to [John Frederic Daniell,] Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 June 1841 |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/5/135 | Letter from Chr [Christopher] Hansteen, Observatory at Christiania, to [Colonel Edward Sabine, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 January 1854 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |
| AP/16/12 | Unpublished paper, 'Magnetic observations at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope' by Robert FitzRoy | 1836 |
| MC/9/567 | Letter from Chr Holst, Secretary of the Royal Frederick University, Christiana, to the Royal Society | 30 May 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| AP/38/12 | Letter, regarding 'On the secular changes of the magnetic system of the Earth' from Christopher Hansteen to the Royal Society | 31 December 1855 |