 The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as () at Heidelberg Observatory on 17 October 1906, almost 13 years prior to its official discovery observation.This minor planet was named after Edgar Schlubach, a German businessman from Hamburg, as well as Henry Frederic Tiarks, FRAS, British banker and amateur astronomer from London, who together financed the Dutch-German expedition to the Christmas Island to observe the solar eclipse of 21 September 1922.The asteroid was named by Schlubach and Tiarks and published in the journal "Astronomische Nachrichten" in 1923 (AN 218, 253).