Endoscope

An endoscope 1 according to the invention comprises an elongate shaft 2, an objective 13, 27, 51 arranged in a distal end region 4 of the shaft 2 for generating an image of an object field 22 in an image plane, wherein the objective 13, 27, 51 comprises a beam splitter 15 e.g. beam splitter cube, and an image recorder 17, 56 for recording the image of the object field 22 and an optical waveguide 11 e.g. fiber, for forwarding illumination radiation from a proximal region to the distal end region 4 of the shaft 2. The endoscope 1 is embodied as a contact endoscope 1, a sensor area 18 of the image recorder 17, 56 is arranged in the image plane and an emergence portion 20 of the optical waveguide is embodied to forward at least some of the illumination radiation to the beam splitter 15 to illuminate the object field 22.