Named in honor of the astronomer and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813). He was professor of mathematics in Turin (1753), Berlin (1766) and Paris (1787) and author of the famous Mécanique analytique (1788) and Théories des fonctions analytiques (1797). (H 96) _ _.
Discovered on 12-9-1923 in Simeis by Beljavskij, S.