Franz Otto Kopp

Franz Otto Kopp in 2014 with his self-made wine-red peaked cap

Franz Otto Kopp demonstrates the Hanoverian 2005 model of the Leibniz four-species calculating machine

Franz Otto Kopp (born January 8, 1937 in Hanover ; † February 9, 2015 there ) was a German engineer and from 1976 lecturer in the design and media department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences . As a senior engineer at the Leibniz University of Hanover , he and Erwin Stein constructed, among other things, the so-called Hanoverian replica of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's four-species calculating machine .

Life

Franz Otto Kopp studied mechanical engineering at the University of Hanover and received his doctorate in 1973 from the mechanical engineering department with the title A Contribution to the Structure Synthesis of Mechanisms . Before that, he had been working at the (today's) Institute for Gear Technology in Mechanical Engineering at Leibniz University under the direction of Gerd Kiper since 1966 , most recently as chief engineer until 2002.

At the same time, Franz Otto Kopp has worked as a lecturer at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences since 1976 in the field of media and design .

Kopp also attracted attention as an artist with his "crawling animals made of wire", most recently in January 2015 during an exhibition on the FAUST site in Linden .

In his retirement, Kopp had taught at the University of Hanover. After friends and companions of the engineer missed him for days in mid-February 2015, the police finally found the “ mentor of the Leibniz machine” dead in his apartment in the Hanover district of Südstadt .

Leibniz calculating machines

During his time as chief engineer at the University of Hanover, Kopp constructed the so-called Hanoverian replica of Leibniz's four-species calculating machine as part of a research contract from the German Research Foundation , following a proposal from Professors Erwin Stein and Karl Popp . The - functioning - calculating machine was presented to the public for the first time in 2006 in a Leibniz exhibition in the orangery of the Herrenhausen Gardens .

Erwin Stein explains the binary four-species gear machine according to Leibniz

Kopp (2nd from right, next to Rainer Hoffschildt ) 2013 at the Association for Research into the History of Homosexuals in Lower Saxony eV (VEHN)

Franz Otto Kopp also designed with Erwin Stein and constructed the binary four-species gear machine from 2005 to 2008 based on preliminary considerations by Leibniz , which can be seen in the Leibniz permanent exhibition in the glass pavilion on the ground floor of the Welfenschloss and most recently in 2012 during the Long Night of Science was demonstrated in Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

• Franz Otto Kopp: A contribution to the structure synthesis of mechanisms , dissertation for the doctorate on February 8, 1973 to G. Kiper and O. Mahrenholtz at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Hanover, Hanover: 1973
• Erwin Stein, Franz-Otto Kopp: Construction and theory of the Leibniz calculating machines in the context of the forerunners, further developments and replicas. With an overview of the history of number systems and arithmetic aids , in the Studia Leibnitiana series , Volume 42, Issue 1, Franz Steiner Verlag
• Franz Otto Kopp: The Hanoverian replica of the four-species calculating machine according to GW Leibniz , in: 6th Colloquium Transmission Technology , ed. by Burkhard Corves, 1st edition, Aachen: Verlagshaus Mainz GmbH Aachen, 2005, ISBN 3-86130-773-1 , pp. 141-161
• Franz Otto Kopp, Erwin Stein: Constructive improvements in the Hanoverian replica of Leibniz's four-species calculating machine , in: VIII. International Leibniz Congress, Lectures 1st Part , Hanover 2006, pp. 390–397
• Erwin Stein, Franz Otto Kopp, K. Wiechmann, G. Weber: New research results and replicas of the four-species calculating machine and the dyadic calculating machine according to Leibniz , in: VIII. International Leibniz Congress, Lectures 2nd Part , Hannover 2006, p 1018-1025
• Franz Otto Kopp, Erwin Stein in: Leibniz - On the trail of the great thinker , Unimagazin Hannover , issue 3/4 2006:
  • It works - with two fixes. Leibniz's ten carry-overs. For the construction of the Hanoverian replica of the four-species calculating machine by Leibniz , pp. 56–59, online as a PDF document
  • Calculemus! New Hanoverian functional models for Leibniz's calculating machines , pp. 60–63
• Erwin Stein and Franz Otto Kopp: Constructive-computational and mathematical-numerical research of the decimal calculating machine and its reconstruction with corrections for complete tens carry over . In: The last original. The Leibniz calculating machine in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library . Edited by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library. Ariane Walsdorf; Klaus Badur; Erwin Stein; Franz Otto Kopp. Hanover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, 2014 (Schatzkammer. 1), pp. 173–253. ISBN 978-3-943922-08-0
• Ariane Walsdorf, Klaus Badur, Erwin Stein, Franz Otto Kopp: The last original. The Leibniz calculating machine of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library (= treasury , vol. 1), ed. from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, Hanover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943922-08-0

literature

• Franz Otto Kopp 1937 - 2015. Obituary for a German artist scholar , in: Neue Sinnlichkeit. Leaves for the funny feeling of feeling wrongly , Springe, Hanover; Munich; Leipzig; Magdeburg; Dresden; Berlin; Cologne: Pandora-Kunst-Verlag, No. 66, 2015, pp. 4–62
• Erwin Stein: Binary four-species calculating machine in the sense of Leibniz by Franz Otto Kopp and Erwin Stein , in Dieter Tasch , Horst-Dieter Görg (ed.): It began in Hanover ... biscuits - bread rolls - calculating machines. About personalities, traditional companies and milestones in the history of technology , with contributions by Torsten Hamacher ..., in cooperation with the Technik-Forum Hannover eV, 1st edition, Hannover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2011, ISBN 978-3-923976-84 -3 , p. 19f.

Web links

Commons : Franz Otto Kopp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Videos
  • Detlev Kils-Korte: Gear art by Franz Otto Kopp , uploaded on December 12, 2012 on youtube .com
  • (6:28 min.); Ekkehard Kähne (camera), Andrea Brücken, Andreas Scholz (editor), Jesco Heyl (interview, Stadtkind hannovermagazin), Bernd Eisle (guitar): Dr Franz Otto Kopp explains in the Leibniz exhibition in Hanover in June 2006 based on his Replica of the functionality of the calculating machine, which GWLeibniz invented and constructed from 1690 , from Medienhaus Hannover on the calenberger-neustadt.de page , last accessed on November 16, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal information from me , Franz Otto Kopp
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ Dietmar Moews: Franz Otto Kopp 1937–2015. Short obituary on Dietmar Moews' blog from February 19, 2015 (accessed March 17, 2015).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Franz Otto Kopp, Erwin Stein: It works ... (see writings )
5. ↑ Compare this information from the German National Library
6. ↑ Compare former research assistants at the IfG ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Conrad von Meding: Mentor of the Leibniz machine has died , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 18, 2015, p. 14
8. ↑ Compare, for example, this photo documentation
9. ↑ Noun nominandum: Guided tour of the Leibniz permanent exhibition , in: The night that creates knowledge 2012 , brochure for the event on November 10, 2012, ed. from the Presidium of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department for Communication and Marketing, Hannover 2012: Eigenverlag, p. 20