Hans Boegehold
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Hans Boegehold (born July 28, 1876 in Niederstüter , today to Sprockhövel , † May 14, 1965 in Jena ) was a German mathematician and optician.
Boegehold studied mathematics at the University of Jena and was a listener of Ernst Abbe's last lecture . In 1898 he did his doctorate on the historical-critical representation of the construction of the second-order surface from nine points under Carl Johannes Thomae and in the same year became an assistant at the Physics Institute in Jena. The following year, he took up a position as a research assistant in the project history of the fixed stars of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in
In 1908 he joined the Carl Zeiss works as an assistant to Moritz von Rohr . In the beginning he mainly dealt with the calculation of spectacle lenses, later with the improvement of microscope optics.
His life's work grew out of the requirement of microphotography for a leveled field of view with the microscope. In 1927 he published the standard work Die geometrische Optik .
In 1938, after lengthy attempts, he succeeded in removing the field flattening and thus the field curvature in the lens with the help of thick menisci. The planapochromatic and Planachromat were invented, after which Carl Zeiss ( Jena ), the first Planachromat lenses for microscopes could offer.
In 1940, after Moritz von Rohr's death, Boegehold took over management of the Jena Optical Museum .
From 1922 until the seizure of power in 1933, Boegehold worked for the SPD in the Jena city parliament. Because of his resistance against the Nazi regime, he was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp for eight days in August 1944 - after the attack on July 20, 1944 .
In 1945 he rejoined the SPD and left the party in 1948 after the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED .
In 1953, Boegehold resigned from the management of the Zeiss computing office Mikro at his own request.
Honors
- 1950: National Prize of the GDR first class (together with Hugo Schrade ( VEB Carl Zeiss Jena) and August Klemm ( Schott Jena)).
The Boegeholdstrasse in Jena is named in his honor.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Boegehold in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boegehold, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and optician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederstüter, today in Sprockhövel , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | Jena |