John Murray (publisher, 1808)

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John Murray III.

John Murray (born April 16, 1808 in London , † April 2, 1892 ibid) was an English publisher . He was the grandson of the founder of John Murray Publishing , John Murray (1745–1793).

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John Murray was the son of the publisher of the same name, John Murray (1778–1843). From 1823 to 1826 he attended the Charterhouse School in Godalming and studied from 1827 at the University of Edinburgh . Murray toured Europe from 1829 to 1843. Based on an idea of ​​his, his father's publishing house started publishing Handbooks for Travelers in 1836 , of which Murray wrote the first volumes. The illness and death of his father prevented him from writing the planned volumes on Italy himself. After the death of his father in 1843, Murray took over the management of the publishing house on Albemarle Street. He continued the publication of The Quarterly Review and published Murray's Magazine monthly from January 1887 to December 1891 . From 1855 to 1856 he edited the previously unpublished letters from Laurence Sterne .

Under his direction, the publisher John Murray published works by George Borrow , John Wilson Croker , Charles Lyell , John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854), Henry Hallam , Francis Bond Head , Philip Henry Stanhope , Lord Campbell and George Grote . Charles Darwin chose Murray and his publisher because of their reputation, wide scientific interests, and useful connections for his 1859 work On the Origin of Species .

On March 2, 1876, Murray became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . In addition, he dealt with geology and mineralogy and published in 1877 under the pseudonym "Verifier" the work Skepticism in Geology . On April 6, 1892, four days after his death, he was buried in the cemetery of the parish church of Wimbledon .

Works as an author

  • A Handbook for Travelers on the Continent: being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany, and Along the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland. London 1836, 2nd edition 1838 .
  • A Handbook for Travelers in Southern Germany; being a guide to Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, & c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea . London, Leipzig, Paris 1837.
  • A Handbook for Travelers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses . London, Leipzig, Paris 1838.
  • Handbook for Travelers in France: being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany; the rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone, and Garonne; the French Alps, Dauphiné, Provence, and the Pyrenees . London, Paris, Leipzig 1843.
  • Skepticism in geology and the reasons for it; an assemblage of facts from nature opposed to the theory of "causes now in action", and refuting it . J. Murray, London 1877, 2nd edition 1878 .

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literature

  • Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the most Interesting Matter . Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1892–1921, 6 volumes.
  • Keith Francis: Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 0313317488 , pp. 116-117.
  • WBC Lister (Ed.): Murray's Handbooks for Travelers . University Publications of America, 1993, ISBN 1-55655-481-8 , PDF .
  • Samuel Smiles : A publisher and his friends. Memoir and correspondence of the late John Murray, with an account of the origin and progress of the house, 1768-1843 . London J. Murray 1891, Volume 1 Volume 2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Keith Francis: Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species . P. 117.
  2. ^ WBC Lister (Ed.): Murray's Handbooks for Travelers . P. VII.
  3. ^ WBC Lister (Ed.): Murray's Handbooks for Travelers . S. XX.
personal data
SURNAME Murray, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John Murray III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1892
Place of death London