I whanau a Palisa i te 6 o Tihema 1848 i Troppau i Austrian Silesia (kua kiia nei ko Opava, kei te Czech Republic). I te tau 1866 ki te 1870, i ako a Palisa i te pāngarau me te whetu i te Whare Wananga o Vienna; heoi, kaore ia i puta tae noa ki te 1884. Ahakoa tenei, i te 1870 he kaiawhina ia i te whare wananga o te Whare Wananga, a kotahi tau i muri mai ka whiwhi ia i tetahi tuunga i te whare wananga i Geneva. I etahi tau i muri mai, i te tau 1872, i te 24 o ona tau, ka noho a Palisa hei kaiwhakahaere o te Austrian Naval Observatory i Pula, i te 18 o Poutu-te-rangi 1874. I te wa i kitea ai e ia tana asteroid tuatahi, 136 Austria, i te 18 o Poutu-te-rangi 1874. I te wa i noho ai ia i Pula, i whakamahia e ia he telescope refractor iti e ono-inihi hei awhina i a ia. I te 1886 ki te 1870, i ako ia i te pāngarau me te whetu i te Whare Wan
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