Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (optician)

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Johann Friedrich Voigtländer, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1832

Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (born May 21, 1779 in Vienna ; † March 28, 1859 there ) is a descendant of Johann Christoph Voigtländer and from 1808 ran the JF Voigtländer company, a workshop for optical and precision mechanical instruments .

He received an imperial privilege to manufacture periscopic glasses and in 1823 another imperial privilege for opera glasses ( double theater perspective ).

His son Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer presented together with the mathematician Josef Petzval with the Petzval lens the first analytically calculated lens of old.

swell

  • Stephan Edler von Keeß: Representation of the factory and trade in its present condition, especially in technical, mercantilian and statistical relation. 2nd edition, 2 volume, 2nd part, pages 764–765, Vienna 1824 by Mörschner and Jasper.
  • Austrian National Encyclopedia or alphabetical presentation of the peculiarities of the Austrian Empire that are worth knowing. Page 580–581, Friedrich Beck'sche Universitätsbuchhandlung. Vienna 1836

literature

  • Ilse Erdmann: From Mechanicus Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna to Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig. A brief company history with special consideration of the Voigtländer family, compiled from documents and testimonials from the archives of Voigtländer AG, Braunschweig , Part I. In: Tradition. Journal for company history and entrepreneur biography 7, 1962, p. 12
  • Ilse Erdmann: From Mechanicus Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna to Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig , Part II. In: Tradition. Journal for company history and entrepreneur biography 7, 1962, p. 161
  • Carsten Grabenhorst: Voigtländer & Son. The company history from 1756 to 1914 . Braunschweig: Appelhans Verlag 2002
  • Siegmund Günther:  Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 215.

Web links

  • Stammbuch 1800–1806 (Tübingen University Library, call number Mh 866 a) online
personal data
SURNAME Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian optician
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1859
Place of death Vienna