Hans Lipperhey

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Portrait of Hans Lipperhey from De vero telescopii inventore (1655)

Hans Lipperhey (also: Jan Lipperhey , Hans Lippershey , Johannes Lipperhey , according to ADB: Hans Lippersheim , Hans Laprey ; * around 1570 in Wesel ; † September 1619 in Middelburg ) was a German - Dutch eyewear maker and the inventor of the Dutch telescope (also Galilei Telescope called), and thus the first telescope.

Life

Lipperhey emigrated to Middelburg in today's province of Zeeland in 1594 and settled there as a glasses maker. At the initiative of Moritz von Nassau , Lipperhey first demonstrated the telescope he had invented on September 10, 1608 in The Hague. On October 2, 1608, he offered the Zeeland Council an instrument for seeing into the distance and was commissioned to make this instrument. The following year, Lipperhey's so-called “telescopes” were sold in Paris . Also to Germany, e.g. B. Augsburg , and the first telescopes reached Italy in 1609. In the same year Galileo Galilei achieved an astronomical breakthrough with a Lipperhey replica.

However, Lipperhey did not receive the patent applied for for his telescope. The reason for this was that in October 1608 he was no longer the only one who understood the art of building telescopes. In addition to Hans Lipperhey, Jacob Metius from Alkmaar and Zacharias Janssen claimed to have invented the telescope.

The dispute over the priority with regard to the invention of the telescope was first presented in a book in 1655. This is entitled De vero telescopii inventore (“About the true inventor of the telescope”) and was written by Pierre Borel. In this book there is also an illustration of Lipperhey.

The lunar crater Lippershey , the asteroid (31338) Lipperhey and the exoplanet Lipperhey are named after him.

literature

  • Siegmund Günther:  Lippersheim, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 734 f.
  • Rolf Riekher: Telescopes and their masters . 2nd edition, Berlin 1990, pp. 19-21; corrected reprint of the 2nd edition. Hans G. Beck (Ed.), Jena 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038638-1 , pp. 21f., 48, 59.
  • Rolf Willach: The long road to the invention of the telescope. In: The Master and the Telescopes. The interplay between astronomy and optics in history. Edited by Jürgen Hamel and Inge Keil. Frankfurt a. M. 2007 (Acta Historica Astronomiae; 33), pp. 34-126

Web links

Commons : Hans Lipperhey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The digital edition of De vero telescopii inventore ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fermi.imss.fi.it
  2. ↑ International Astronomical Union: NameExoWorlds - The Approved Names. Retrieved March 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Lipperhey, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lipperhey, Johannes; Lipperhey, Jan; Lippershey, Hans; Lippersheim, Hans (according to ADB); Laprey, Hans (after ADB)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch glasses maker and the inventor of the telescope
DATE OF BIRTH around 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH September 1619
Place of death Middelburg