Anders Angerstein in the family until the 19th century. Anders Angerstein is noted for improvements for charcoal piles during his tenure. In 1981, the former Angerstein steelworks of which he laid the foundation were transformed into the "Steelworks Museum of Vikmanshyttan", maintained as a museum of regional industrial history. Anders Angerstein Anders Angerstein (1614-1659), also called "Andrae Angerstein", was a German-Swedish ironmaster. Anders Angerstein is said to have been born in , Niedersachsen, Holy Roman Empire, with evidence indicating ultimate family origins in Hungary. He immigrated to Sweden along with accompanying miners, first in service of other equally immigrated ironmasters but with
Christian Mayer (astronomer) of mathematics and physics at Heidelberg. By this age, however, he had developed a strong interest in astronomy. He was appointed Court Astronomer at Mannheim, and was tasked with selecting the instruments for the new observatories at Schwetzingen and Mannheim. With these completed, he was able to pursue his astronomical studies, and published numerous works. In 1769 he was invited to St. Petersburg to observe the transit of Venus, which he did together with Anders Johan Lexell. In 1773, the Jesuit order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV, and consequently he was removed as Court Astronomer. However he was still