Willy Merté

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Biotar 1: 2/58 mm for 35mm cameras
Tessar 2.8 / 50 for small picture - SLR , Carl Zeiss, Jena, about 1976

Willy Walter Merté (born January 9, 1889 in Dresden ; † May 16, 1948 in Dayton , Ohio, USA) was a German optics designer in the service of Carl Zeiss . A number of well-known Zeiss lenses were developed by him in the lead.

On his father's side, Merté's family comes from a French bourgeois family based in Offenbach. After a youth in Weimar, he studied physics and mathematics in Munich and Jena , among others with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and Max Wien . In 1912 he received his doctorate ("On curves of spherical curvature") and passed his state examination as a teacher the following year. Before the beginning of the First World War , Merté joined the Carl Zeiss company in Jena. He was wounded in the war.

At Zeiss he helped develop

a range of lenses patented for Zeiss. After Ernst Wandersleb had increased the light intensity of the Tessar from 1: 6.3 to 1: 4.5 (1907), Merté was able to bring the light intensity to 1: 2.8 (1931).

Merté was also active as a textbook author. In 1930 he published a “Vacation Course in Photogrammetry” together with O. von Gruber and K. Gundlach. In 1945 “The photographic lens since 1929” was published by Springer.

In 1945 he went with many employees under the protection of the Americans from Jena to Oberkochen to help set up the West German subsidiary of Zeiss. In 1947 he went to the USA at the offer of the Institute for Optics at Boston University. He died the following year after a brief illness in Dayton , Ohio.

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  1. ^ Emil-Heinz Schmitz () Handbook on the history of optics: The step into the XX. Century. JP Wayenborgh Publishing House. P. 499
  2. ↑ a b Josef Reiner:  Merté, Willy. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 178 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 255
  4. ↑ Willy Walter Merté (1912) About curves of spherical curvature. Dissertation. Thomas & Hubert, 63 pp.
  5. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 189
  6. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 95
  7. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., pp. 122f
  8. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., pp. 43f
  9. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 255
  10. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 87
  11. ↑ "Summer Course in Photogrammetry: A Collection of Lectures and Articles" W. Merté, O. von Gruber, K. Gundlach (1930) K. Wittwer
  12. ^ Kingslake, Rudolf (1989) The History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Publishers Inc., p. 255
  13. ^ Emil-Heinz Schmitz () Handbook on the history of optics: The step into the XX. Century. JP Wayenborgh Publishing House. P. 499
personal data
SURNAME Merté, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merté, Willy Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German optics designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1948
Place of death Dayton , USA