Ernst Karl Abbe (1840 - 1905)

Born 23 Jan 1840 in Eisenach, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Deutscher Bund

Ancestors

Died 14 Jan 1905 at age 64 in Jena, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Deutsches Reich

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Biography

Ernst Abbe is Notable.

Ernst was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments. He was a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of research microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums and other optical systems.

Ernst Carl was born in 1840 in Eisenach. He was the son of "Fabrikaufseher" Georg Adam Abbe and Elisabetha Barchfeldt.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Eisenach, Mitteldeutschland: Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach > Kirchenkreis Eisenach-Gerstungen > Eisenach > Taufen 1838-1845 Archion

See also:

• Wikipedia: Ernst Abbe
• Wikidata: Item Q76359, en:Wikipedia
• Heuss, Theodor, "Abbe, Ernst" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), S. 2-4 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118646419.html#ndbcontent
• Hohlfeld, Johannes (Hrsg.): Ahnentafeln berühmter Deutscher;
  Band 1, Leipzig 1932; p.256-259. Ahnentafel des Physikers Ernst Abbe.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131322738/ernst-karl-abbe