Voigtländer, Johann Christoph, 1732-1797

LC control no.	no2023108163
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Voigtländer, Johann Christoph, 1732-1797 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Voigtländer, Johannes Christoph, 1732-1797 Voigtländer, Christoph, 1732-1797 Voigtländer, Christof, 1732-1797 Voigtlaender, Johann Christoph, 1732-1797
See also	Student: Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich, 1779-1859 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	120305860 cnp00413497 Q1519671 15597405
Associated country	Austria Germany Saxony (Electorate)
Located	Vienna (Austria)
Birth date	1732-11-19
Death date	1797-06-26 1797-06-27
Place of birth	Leipzig (Germany)
Place of death	Vienna (Austria)
Field of activity	Instrument industry Machinery industry Machine design Optical industry Optical instruments--Design and construction
Profession or occupation	Metal-workers Inventors Businesspeople Mechanical instrument manufacturer Mechanical instrument designer Mathematical instrument manufacturer Optical instrument manufacturer
Found in	Voigtländer, Johann Christoph. Beschreibung und Gebrauch des Pantographs sonst der Affe genannt, 1785, viewed online 29 September 2023: title page (Johann Christoph Voigtländer, Mechanicus in Wien) <https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bqcg63cc> OCLC, 29 September 2023 (access point: Voigtlaender, Johann Christoph) DNB GND, 21 September 2023 (authorized access point: Voigtländer, Johann Christoph; other names: Voigtländer, Johann C., Voigtländer, Johannes Christoph; life dates: 1732-1797; record ID: 120305860) <https://d-nb.info/gnd/120305860> Wikipedia, die freie Enzyklopädie, 22 September 2023: Johann Christoph Voigtländer (Johann Christoph Voigtländer; born 19 November 1732 in Leipzig; died 26 June 1797 in Vienna (based on WStLA, Totenbeschreibamt 106, FV, fol. 36r); Optiker [maker of optical instruments] and inventor; son of master carpenter; came in 1755 to Prague, then Vienna; worked 1757-1762 in Meinecke workshop, which produced mathematical instruments; in 1763, Empress Maria Theresia granted him a licence with which he founded his own workshop; in 1767, invented two important mechanical tools: a straight-line dividing engine (machine for marking divisions) for natural and reduced scales, a circular dividing engine for marking compasses, astrolabes, and quadrants; died 1797; his business was continued by his widow (Maria Magdalena Wolff, 1744-1806) and two elder sons, Wilhelm Voigtländer (1768-1828) und Siegmund Voigtländer (born 1770, Vienna; died 1822, Vienna); a further son was Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (Optiker), whose son, Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer, established Voigtländer as the leading photographic enterprise of its time) <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Voigtl%C3%A4nder> 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 Christoph Voigtländer; Voigtländer firm, producer of optical and mechanical precision instruments; 4 generations of Voigtländer family determined its fortunes) pages 13, etc. (Johann Christoph Voigtländer the younger, born 19 November 1732 in Leipzig, founder of firm; moved to Vienna, as a Mechanicus [maker of mechanical instruments], devoted self to instrument manufacturing, e.g., compasses, surveying instruments, and factory machines, increasingly involving metalworking; became independent in 1756; through 1763 decree by empress of Austria, licenced as master in mechanics and citizen of Vienna; series of inventions (including dividing engines, screw-cutting machine, metal lathe, finishing machine for woollen and silk fabrics), two publications: Beschreibung und Gebrauch des von mir verbesserten Pantographen, sonst der Affe genannt (Wien 1785) and Anweisung, die Nivellier-Waage mit einem Perspektiv richtig und genau zu rectificieren (Wien 1790); after death in 1797, his three 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 from their father; Johann Friedrich was still journeyman when father died; 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) Austria-Forum, viewed 22 September 2023 (Voigtländer, Johann Christoph; Johann Voigtländer; born 1732, Leipzig (Germany); died 27 June 1797, Vienna; producer of optical instruments and lenses; founded his own workshop 1763 [NB: portrait of "Johann Voigtländer" reproduced in this entry is actually one of his youngest son, Johann Friedrich Voigtländer]) <https://austria-forum.org/af/Biographien/Voigtl%C3%A4nder%2C_Johann_Christoph> Deutsche Biographie, viewed 26 September 2023: Voigtländer, Johann Christoph: Übersicht (Voigtländer, Christoph; life dates: 1732-1797; occupations: carpenter, instrument maker; name variants: Voigtländer, Johann Christoph, Voigtländer, Christoph, Voigtländer, Johann C., Voigtländer, Johannes Christoph, Voigtländer, Christof, Voigtländer, Johann Christof, Voigtländer, Johannes Christof) <https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd120305860.html#indexcontent> Wikidata, 22 September 2023 (Johann Christoph Voigtländer (Q1519671); description: 1732-1797; country of citizenship: Germany; date of birth: 19 November 1732; place of birth: Leipzig; date of death: 27 June 1797 (0 references); place of death: Vienna; occupation: optician) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1519671> Wikipedia, 20 September 2023: Voigtländer (Voigtländer; was long-established company within optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany; today continues as a trademark for a range of photographic products; founded in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, in 1756, by Johann Christoph Voigtländer; produced mathematical instruments, precision mechanical products, optical instruments, including optical measuring instruments and opera glasses, and is the oldest name in cameras; from 1840, Voigtländer's grandson Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Ritter von Voigtländer established Voigtländer as a leading photographic company of its time) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigtl%C3%A4nder>
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