| Code | DS/UK/446 |
| Dates | 23/02/1853-27/04/1925 |
| Person Name | Krüss; Andreas Hugo (23/02/1853-27/04/1925); Prof. Dr.phil, D. theol. h.c. |
| Surname | Krüss |
| Forenames | Andreas Hugo |
| Title | Prof. Dr.phil, D. theol. h.c. |
| Activity | Physicist, president of the Lutheran church consistory, head of the family business Optisches Institut A.Krüss in Hamburg (1888-1920), handed down to his son Paul (1880-1976) (1920); influential for the establishing of the Hamburg Planetary, the botanical (1901), chemical (1878), physical (1885), minerological and zoological (1919) Institutes. |
| Relationships | Father of Hugo Andres Krüss. |
| History | Training with mechanische Werkstätten Dennert & Pape in Altona and Optisch-astronomische Werkstatt C. A. Steinheil-Söhne (both Munich); studied at Polytechnic (1871) University of Munich; Dissertation (1873); Professor (conferred by the Hamburg Senate, 1917); 'theologische Ehrenwürde' (Göttingen, 1919); honorary member of the University of Hamburg (1921). |
| Source | 'Andreas Hugo Krüss' in: Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke eds., Hamburgische Biografie. Personenlexikon, vol 4, pp. 202-03. |
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