page_title: Siegfried Czapski
section_title: Siegfried and Margarete Czapski
hierarchical_section_title: Siegfried Czapski / Siegfried and Margarete Czapski
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grab von Siegfried Czapski auf dem Nordfriedhof in Jena English: Grave of Siegfried Czapski in Jena
context_page_description: Siegfried Czapski was a German physicist and optician.
context_section_description: In 1885 Czapski's life changed dramatically when he met and fell in love with Margarete Koch. Margarete (officially spelled Marguerite) was the granddaughter of Abbe's teacher, the mathematician and physicist Karl Snell. Margarete's father was a professor at a grammar school in Paris and a nephew of Juliette Drouet, who was Victor Hugo's partner for much of his life. His wife Ottilie Koch (née Snell) often brought their daughter to visit her father in Jena. Ottilie was also the sister of Abbe's wife, Else Abbe. It was inevitable that 24-year-old Czapski and 19-year-old Margarete Koch would eventually meet. Just weeks after getting to know each other they got engaged, secretly at first. They agreed that they would marry when Margarete turned 21. The wedding took place on August 11, 1887.
  Their marriage produced eight children:
  1888 Charlotte ("Lotte")
  1889 Hans
  1891-1968 Helene, married name Holzman
  1892 Ewald
  1894 Elisabeth, married Wilhelm Flitner
  1896 Dorothea
  July 13, 1902 Reinhardt
  December 22, 1903 Anna-Maria ("Anni")
  Czapski had long been suffering from ill health, and his huge workload made the situation even more difficult. On June 29 he died of a pulmonary embolism due to complications after an appendectomy. Having been the close working companion of his friend and mentor Ernst Abbe, and ultimately his successor, Czapski was only destined to outlive Abbe by a mere two-and-a-half years.
caption: Grave of Siegfried Czapski in Jena
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