Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich, 1779-1859

LC control no.	no2023107616
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich, 1779-1859 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Voigtländer, Friedrich, 1779-1859 Voigtländer, Joh. Friedr. (Johann Friedrich), 1779-1859 Voigtländer, J. F. (Johann Friedrich), 1779-1859 Voigtländer, Jean Fréderic, 1779-1859
See also	Teacher: Voigtländer, Johann Christoph, 1732-1797 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Student: Voigtländer, Friedrich, Ritter von, 1812-1878 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Officer of: Voigtländer & Sohn *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	117478172 cnp01087124 Q1609293 32775080
Associated country	Austria
Associated place	London (England) Berlin (Germany) Stuttgart (Germany)
Located	Vienna (Austria) Braunschweig (Germany)
Birth date	1779-05-21 1779 1778-05-21 1778
Death date	1859-03-28 1859 1857-03-27 1857
Place of birth	Vienna (Austria)
Place of death	Vienna (Austria)
Field of activity	Optical industry Optical instruments--Design and construction Instrument industry Machine design Machinery industry
Profession or occupation	Opticians Inventors Businesspeople Chief executive officers Optical instrument manufacturer Mechanical instrument manufacturer Mathematical instrument manufacturer
Found in	Neues allgemeines Garten-Magazin, 1828, viewed online 21 September 2023: page 28 (Johann Friedrich Voigtländer; Ueber die per[i]scopischen Brillengläser von Johann Friedrich Voigtländer. Mit Abbildungen. Bereitungsact der Nöthelstifte. Miscellen (3)) Jahrbücher des Kaiserlichen Königlichen Polytechnischen Institutes in Wien, 1827, viewed online 21 September 2023: page 368 (Johann Friedrich Voigtländer, in Vienna; six-year Privilegium [exclusive licence] for manufacture of periscope glasses, from 5 July 1815) DNB GND, 21 September 2023 (authorized access point: Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich, 1779-1859; life dates: 1779-1859; country: Austria; place of activity: Vienna; occupation: Optiker [maker of optical instruments, optician]; record ID: 117478172) <https://d-nb.info/gnd/117478172> CERL, 26 September 2023 (heading: Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich; record ID: cnp01087124; further biographical data: 21.05.1779-28.03.1859; variant name: Voigtländer, Joh. Friedr.) <http://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01087124> Wikipedia, die freie Enzyklopädie, 21 September 2023 (Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (Optiker); born 21 May 1779 in Vienna; died 28 March 1859 in the same place; successor of Johann Christoph Voigtländer, from 1808 carried on the firm J.F. Voigtländer, Werkstätte für optische und feinmechanische Instrumente; received imperial Privileg [exclusive licence] for production of periscope glasses, another from 1823 for opera glasses; father of Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer) <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Voigtl%C3%A4nder_(Optiker)> Tradition (Baden-Baden, Germany), February 1962: Erdmann, Ilse. Vom Mechanicus Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Wien zur Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig. I. Teil, page 12 (Johann Friedrich Voigtländer, son of the founder of the Voigtländer firm, producer of optical and mechanical precision instruments; 4 generations of Voigtländer family determined its fortunes) page of plates preceding page 13 (caption: Johann Friedrich Voigtländer, 1778-1857) pages 13, etc. (founder of firm, Johann Christoph Voigtländer the younger, born 19 November 1732 in Leipzig; after his death in 1797, his 3 sons (Christian Wilhelm, Johann Siegmund, and Johann Friedrich), together with their mother until 1806, carried on father's business jointly as Brüder Voigtländer [no publications in OCLC database as of 21 September 2023], until the two elder sons died in 1820s; all had learned trade of Mechanicus [maker of mechanical instruments] from their father; Johann Friedrich was still journeyman when father died; travels included working in Berlin, Stuttgart, and London; in England 1805-1806; name on 1806 passport: Jean Fréderic Voigtländer, opticien de Vienne; returned to Vienna after death of mother, soon separated his business from brothers, was authorized to open own workshop 24 March 1807, to produce optical, mechanical, and mathematical instruments; Emperor Franz I gave him 6-year Privilegium [exclusive licence] to produce and sell periscopic glasses, then 5-year licence to sell opera glasses; also sold eyeglasses mounted in frames, as had learned in England; products sold internationally, including in Holland and England; in licence, Vienna, 1823: Mechanikus und Optikus Friedrich Voigtländer; on price list in Budapest, 8 November 1827: Friedrich Voigtländer, Mechanicus und Opticus aus Wien; also still sold copper engraving machines, knives of his invention, drawing instruments, and horizontal scales; in 1837, turned leadership of firm over to his only son, Peter Wilhelm Friedrich; from 1839, firm was named Voigtländer & Sohn; 1849, Johann Friedrich moved with son's family to Braunschweig; died 1857 in Vienna, buried there) Wikidata, 21 September 2023 (Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (Q1609293); description: 1779-1859; country of citizenship: Austrian Empire; date of birth: 21 May 1779; place of birth: Vienna; date of death: 28 March 1859; place of death: Vienna; occupation: optician) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1609293> Tradition (Baden-Baden, Germany), August 1962: Erdmann, Ilse. Vom Mechanicus Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Wien zur Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig. II. Teil, page 161 (Peter Wilhelm Friedrich; third head of Voigtländer family firm; born 17 November 1812 in Vienna, only child of Johann Friedrich Voigtländer and his wife Franziska geb. Tiedmann; studied at Polytechnisches Institut, at same time fulfilled his apprenticeship with his father; Optiker and Mechaniker [maker of optical and mechanical instruments])