![]() ![]() Even so, he was able to ride the wave of an expanding market for microscopes. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Leitz had a rough time his first year. Leitz took over the company upon Belthle's death in 1869, and renamed it the Optical Institute of Ernst Leitz (Optischen Institut von Ernst Leitz). ![]() ![]() In 1865, Belthle hired an engineer, Ernst Leitz (1843-1920), who became his partner a year later. The company became known as the Optical Institute Kellner and Belthle. In 1855, Kellner died at age 29 of tuberculosis and his partner Friedrich Christian Belthle took over the workshop. Telescopes were the main product of the early company, but in the 1850s, microscopes became the principal product. The earlier Leitz trade catalogues give the date of establishment as 1850 but by the early twentieth century, Leitz publications put the date at 1849. The company of Ernst Leitz had its origin in the Optical Institute founded by Karl Kellner in Wetzlar, Germany. ![]()
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