Simon Plössl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Plössl

Austrian optician

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1794

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 29-Jan-1868

Profession: optician

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Simon Plössl (September 19, 1794, Vienna – January 29, 1868, Vienna) was an Austrian optical instrument maker.
Initially trained at the Voigtländer company, he set up his own workshop in 1823.
His major achievement at the time was the improvement of the achromatic microscope objective.
Today he is best known for the eponymous Plössl telescope eyepiece, which follows his 1860 design, and is extensively used by amateur astronomers since the 1980s.