Ernst Karl Abbe

Birth: 23 Jan 1840
Eisenach, Stadtkreis Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany
Death: 14 Jan 1905 (aged 64)
Jena, Stadtkreis Jena, Thüringen, Germany
Burial: Jenaer Nordfriedhof

Jena, Stadtkreis Jena, Thüringen, Germany Add to Map
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Memorial ID: 131322738 View Source

Physicist, entrepreneur and social reformer. Together with Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott he founded the modern optical industry in Jena.

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Else Snell Abbe

1844–1914 (m. 1871)

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Grete Unrein

1872–1945

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