Florence Sartorius

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Florence Sartorius (born April 10, 1846 in Göttingen ; † August 1, 1925 there ) was a German mechanic and entrepreneur .

Life

Florence Sartorius received a four-year training course from the Göttingen university mechanic Apel. After the journeyman's examination, he went on a journey for further training. On July 1, 1870, he opened his F. Sartorius precision engineering workshop in Göttingen , which can be seen as the beginning of the Sartorius Group . The success of his company was based primarily on a new type of short-arm analytical balance . It took less time to settle and therefore delivered a faster result.

Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: grave of Florence Sartorius

See also

literature

  • Florence Sartorius . In: Yearbook for Optics and Precision Mechanics , year 1968.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Dostert: The power of old and new. The laboratory equipment supplier Sartorius has existed since 1870; it is a success story from another time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 24, 2017, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Florence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German precision mechanic and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1925
Place of death Goettingen