 The Institute was renamed as the 'Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics' to honour the founder of the Institute and to enable the Fraunhofer Society to call their own institutes (the first of which was founded in 1954), 'Fraunhofer Institutes'.Both Institutions had been named independently after the physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, and they had no other connection besides the name.The solar observatory at the island of Capri, Italy was founded in 1954.