22644 Matejbel | Discovered 1998 July 27 by P. Pravec and U. Babiaková at Ondřejov. |
Matej Bel (1684-1749), Slovak historian and a great scholar of the eighteenth century, was a pioneer of collaborative research, member of numerous scholarly societies and author of the book Notitia Hungariae novae historico-geographica. The University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, bears his name. |
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