In 1846 Zeiss opened a workshop in Jena for producing microscopes
and other optical instruments. Realizing that improvements in optical instruments
depended on advances in optical theory, he engaged as research worker Ernst
Abbe, a physics and mathematics lecturer (later professor) at the University
of Jena, who in 1866 became Zeiss's partner. They engaged Otto Schott,
a chemist, who developed about 100 new kinds of optical glass and numerous
types of heat-resistant glass. After the death of Zeiss, Abbe donated
the Zeiss firm and his share in the glassworks to the Carl Zeiss
Foundation. In 1923 Schott added his share in the glassworks to the
foundation. In 1945 U.S. forces evacuated the board of management and about
100 scientists and technicians of the Carl Zeiss firm (Jena) to
West Germany, where it was firmly reestablished.