Oskar Barnack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oskar Barnack

German optical engineer

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1879

Place of Birth: Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1936

Profession: photographer, engineer, inventor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was an inventor and German photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar.