Overview

See the German Wikipedia article :de:Siegfried Czapski for details of Siegried Czapski's life.

Czapski succeeded Ernst Abbe as the head of Carl Zeiss in Jena

Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

in 1903.

A street in Jena, near the Carl Zeiss works, is named after him: Siegfried-Czapski-Straße, a few blocks off Zeiss Promenade.

Publications

His most important publication was Theorie der optischen Instrumente, nach Abbe (Breslau: Trewendt, 1893).

External links

• collected short bios of Czapski