Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Bruckner connection to Leica
From: "jeffrey frey" <yerffej@hotbot.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:59:22 -0700
 
An amazing, if indirect, connection between Anton Bruckner and the Leica, explaining the Bruckner special edition:  

November 1, 1855 

     Birth of Guido Adler in Eibensch|tz, Austrian Empire (now
     Czech Republic). Adler was one of the founders of the
     modern science of musicology. His family moved to Vienna
     when he was 9. In 1864 he began to study with Anton
     Bruckner at the Vienna Conservatory. After earning his
     doctorate in Vienna, he became a professor of music at the
     University of Prague and later at the University of Vienna.


November 1, 1879 

     Birth of Oskar Barnack in Lynow, Germany. Barnack designed
     the first precision miniature camera, the Leica I, 1924. His
     camera initiated the era of 35mm cameras.



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