Johann Gottfried Galle
Galle was born on June 9, 1812, in Papsthaus, just a short distance west of Radis and next to the town of Grafenhainichen. Johann Gottfried Galle was the son of J. Gottfried Galle and Henriette Pannier He was born in an isolated house. He attended school at radis (His mother's birthplace). There the local clergyman prepared both one of his own sons and Galle for the secondary school at Wittenberg. Galle also discovered Neptune.