Institution

Carl Zeiss AG

1846 · 19th century · Also known as Zeiss

Carl Zeiss AG is a German optics company that began as a workshop opened in Jena in 1846 by Carl Zeiss. With the physicist Ernst Abbe and the glassmaker Otto Schott it became a world leader in microscopes, lenses and precision optics. After the Second World War it was split into East and West German companies, reunited after 1990 with headquarters in Oberkochen.

Carl Zeiss AG
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