Alfred Schmitt

Alfred Schmitt was a French astronomer, active at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s. (His publications are all signed A. Schmitt, following the practice of his profession at that time.)

He discovered several asteroids.

Between 1940 and 1948 he married his colleague Odette Bancilhon.

It is likely that the asteroid 1617 Alschmitt, discovered by his Algiers colleage Louis Boyer, was named after him.