Kruss (other)
Kruss or Krüss may refer to: * Krüss Optronic, a German company * Gerhard Krüss, German chemist * James Krüss, German writer and illustrator See also * Krus (other) Krus or KRUS may refer to: * Kru people, or Krus, an ethnic group of West Africa * KRUS, an American radio station * , the Farmers Social Insurance Fund of Poland * Marek Kruś (born 1952), Polish hockey player * Kura Sushi, a Japanese sushi resta ...

Krüss Optronic
A. Krüss Optronic GmbH is a German manufacturer and distributor of optical and electronic laboratory equipment as well as instruments for gemology. The Hamburg-based company is one of the traditional Hanseatic family-owned enterprises and one of the oldest companies in Germany. It had its origins in the optical workshop of Mechanicus Opticus Edmund Gabory, founded in 1796. A. Krüss Optronic has a branch office in the US, and representations in many countries of the world. History Edmund Gabory trained in London, with the well-known optician Jesse Ramsden. After some years in their own workshop in London, in 1796 he and his family moved the business to Hamburg in 1796, a prospering seaport and trading center. In 1844, Edmund Garbory's assistant and son-in-law Andres Krüss founded his own company, A. Krüss Optisches Institut, and sold navigational instruments and nautical charts. The two businesses were joined in 1886 into one company that exists in 2015. In 1859, Edmund Johan ...
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Gerhard Krüss
Gerhard Krüss (14 December 1859 – 3 February 1895) was a German chemist and founder of the ''Journal für anorganische Chemie'' (Journal of Inorganic Chemistry) in 1892. The journal is still published under the name of ZAAC - ''Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine'' ( Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry). Krüss was involved in several topics during his university career at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He focused on analytical and inorganic chemistry and in his early years the chemistry of gold compounds and the measurement of atomic masses were his main interests. Later he became involved in the research of the rare earth elements. Krüss also suggested a new element similar to cobalt solving a problem in the sequence of iron, cobalt and nickel in the periodic table The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the (chemical) elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements. It is widely used in chemist ...
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James Krüss
James Krüss (31 May 1926 – 2 August 1997) was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968. Biography Krüss was born as the son of the electrician Ludwig Krüss and his wife Margaretha Krüss (born Friedrichs) in Heligoland. In 1941, during World War II, the inhabitants of the island were evacuated to Arnstadt, Thuringia, later to Hertigswalde, near Sebnitz, Saxony. After finishing high school in 1943, he studied to become a teacher, first in Lunden until 1943, Schleswig-Holstein, then in Ratzeburg until 1944, then finally in Brunswick. In 1944, he volunteered into the air force and was stationed in Ústí nad Labem, now Czech Republic at the end of World War II. From 1945 he lived with his parents in Cuxhaven. Career In 1946, he published his first book, ''Der go ...
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