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Ludwig Ignaz Schupmann (23 January 1851 inGeseke (Westphalia),Kingdom of Prussia – 2 October 1920 also inGeseke) was a Germanprofessor ofarchitecture and an optical designer. He is principally remembered today for his Medial and Brachymedial telescopes, types ofcatadioptric reflecting-refracting telescopes withMangin mirrors that eliminatechromatic aberrations while using common optical glasses. Used in early lunar studies, they are used now indouble-star work.

In 1882, electric street lighting was put into operation in the center of the city ofBerlin (Potsdamer Platz andLeipziger Straße) for which the companySiemens & Halske supplied a total of 36 carbon arc lamps.

In November 1887, the city of Berlin announced a competition for the design of richly decorated arc lamp candelabras for the boulevardUnter den Linden, which was won by Ludwig Schupmann. A total of 104 lamps with a light point height of 8 metres were built according to this design and installed in Berlin in 1888 (on Unter den Linden, Pariser Platz, Opernplatz and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße). Only later, they were named after their creator as Schupmann candelabras.

Before the 1936 Olympic Games, the Schupmann candelabras on the Unter den Linden-boulevard were replaced by so-calledBiedermeier Lamps.

Schupmann drafted four types of hybrid telescope made out of lenses and mirrors. He called this "mixed" technology "medial telescope" (from Latin "medium", middle). In the first booklet published in 1899, he presented two types of "medial telescopes" and two variants with shorted tube lengths. The latter were called "brachymedial telescopes" by him. He created the word from the Greek βραχύς (brachys) for "short", so a "brachymedial" for him is a "shortened medial" or "shortened hybrid" telescope.^[1]

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  Medial Telescopes (types A and B) according to Schupmann 1899
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  Brachymedial Telescopes (types A and B) according to Schupmann 1899
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  Giant "brachymedial" (shortened hybrid) telescope built in the city of Rathenow near Berlin byEdwin Rolf 1949-1953 (around 1953).
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  Giant "Shortened Schupmann Medial"telescope in Rathenow, Germany (after 2008).

Theasteroid5779 Schupmann is named in his honour.†

Die Medial-Fernrohre - Eine neue Konstruktion für große astronomische Instrumente, Teubner-Verlag, 1899

• Ludwig Schupmann and some Early Medial Telescopes

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