# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-lippershey
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:36.846Z

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name: "Hans Lippershey"
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description: "He built a device that let people see farther than their eyes allowed, then tried to lock down the rights. Whether he invented it or simply got to the patent office first remains an open question."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Hans Lippershey was a spectacle-maker working across the German-Dutch border around the turn of the 17th century. Sometime before 1608, he assembled a telescope—or something very much like one—and became the first person to seek a patent for the instrument. The application put his name in the record, but it didn't settle the deeper question: had he actually invented the thing, or had someone else beaten him to it? The answer stayed murky then and remains murky now. He was buried on 29 September 1619, his role in the story fixed at "first to file," not necessarily first to see.