Paul Jacob Marperger

Paul Jacob Marperger

Paul Jacob Marperger (born June 27, 1656 in Nuremberg , † October 27, 1730 in Dresden ) was one of the first German and most productive writers on mercantilism , economics and cameralistics .

Life

Complete kitchen and cellar dictionary : A publication by Paul Jacob Marperger from 1716

Paul Jacob Marperger was the son of the German officer Paul Marperger, who was once in the Swedish service and had retired to Nuremberg. According to the custom of the time, the boy was enrolled at the theological faculty of the University of Altdorf at the age of nine or ten . However, he never went to university, or only for a short time as a law student, but instead went on to do a business apprenticeship at a trading house in Lyon . Here he learned firsthand the more advanced methods of French business; many of his later publications go back to these teaching experiences. Further extensive trips abroad took him to Vienna, Breslau, Geneva, Hamburg, Lübeck, Copenhagen, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Dresden and Stockholm in the following years.

The experience of his knowledge gained on these trips was reflected in numerous writings on very different topics. He wrote works on horticulture, botany, medicine, diets, food and animal care, as well as on foundations, widow care and the police system, as well as on the military, the book trade and city regulations, economics, trade fairs and banks, but a third of his oeuvre, which includes over a hundred titles was dedicated to the fields of commercial knowledge (Eduard Weber (1884–1916) therefore rightly called him the “first German commercial scientist”). As far as Marperger uses the label "science", however, it was certainly intended on the one hand as a recommendation of his writings and on the other hand as a synonym for the conglomerate of all that knowledge that was then considered necessary for the management or understanding of a trade. Marperger was not only satisfied with a scattered treatment of occupational educational aspects (for example in the Kaufmann-Jung and in the Handels-Diener), but also made the first German-language attempt at systematizing commercial training institutions in the Dreyfach Güldenen Klee-Blat. This was demonstrated for the first time by the Dresden commercial specialist teacher Bruno Zieger (1860–1908), who had grown up from the elementary school teacher status. For Jürgen Zabeck (History of Vocational Education and Its Theory, Paderborn 2009, here pages 193–197), however, Marperger's “stylization” “in the previous historiography of vocational and business education” is “difficult to understand”.

In 1708 he was accepted into the Prussian Society of Sciences , of which Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was then president . In 1724 the Royal Danish, Prussian, Polish and Electoral Saxon Court and Commerce Councils were appointed to Dresden, where Marperger spent the last years of his life self-publishing a number of smaller fonts. The number of his publications in all areas of business is astonishing. His very extensive estate has only been partially evaluated so far.

Marperger was married to a born von Siburg from Hamburg since 1681; the couple had two sons (Bernhard Walter and Paul Jacob) and a daughter.

According to Julius Arndt's judgment, Marperger is one of the “most important, most widely read and most productive specialist writers of his time. Honored, generally recognized, extremely educated and well-read, he wrote into old age. "

Marperger's book, published in Hamburg in 1709 and dedicated to King Friedrich I of Prussia, on the “Newly Opened Commercial Court or Well-Ordered Commercien-Collegium”, with its more than 800 pages, is the first German-language compendium in which not only the commercial courts that existed at the time, but also the laws, rules and practices applicable to trade and payment transactions as well as to companies, banks and commercial associations are dealt with in detail, even if not always systematically. Together with the collection of practical disputes and decisions contained in the second part of the volume, based on the so-called "Pareres" of the French trade expert Jaques Savary (1622–1690), the book gives extremely diverse and vivid insights into economic life in Germany and the neighboring countries about 300 years ago.

48 publications are proven; over 70 of his larger and smaller fonts remained unprinted.

Fonts

• Newly opened commercial court or well-ordered Commercien-Collegium , Benjamin Schiller, Hamburg 1709 (524 pages) therein also:
• Responsorum and commercial PARERES "of the famous French Commercien-Rath SAVARY in German language (256 pages)
• Curieuses Nature, Art, Trade and Action Lexicon , ed. by Johann Huebner . Leipzig 1712.
• Faithful and Skilled Trade Servant. Monath, Nuremberg; Leipzig 1715. Digitized and full text in the German Text Archive , reprint with a summarizing overview by Frank Deges: Cologne 1999
• The always-ready trade correspondent. 4th edition. Schiller, Hamburg 1717. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• Description of the hatter craft. Richter, Altenburg 1719. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• The well-established Seminarium Militare, or Pflantz-Schul, in the future skilled and brave war people and soldiers. Self-published, Dresden 1727. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• Depiction of a widow sad and comforted again, or irrelevant instruction. Dresden 1731.
• Description of the fairs. New edition: Frankfurt / M. 1968
• Description of the banquets. Halle (Saale); Leipzig 1717. Digitized and full text in the German Text Archive ; New edition: Frankfurt / M. 1969
• The newly opened merchant stock exchange. New edition: Wiesbaden 1973.
• History and life of the most famous European builders. New edition: Leipzig 1975
• Wolmeynende thoughts on caring for the poor. New edition: Leipzig 1977
• Complete kitchen and cellar dictionary. 1716. New edition: Munich 1978
• Wohl-Unterwiesener Kauffmanns-Jung (etc.) Nuremberg 1715; Reprinted with an introduction to business education by Jürgen Zabeck: Cologne 1999
• Trifolium Mercantile Aureum or Dreyfach Güldenes Klee-Blat of the worthy Kauffmannschracht. Dresden and Leipzig 1723; Reprint with an introduction specifically to M.'s vocational training concept by Uwe Andreas Michelsen, Darmstadt 1990 (printer of the former TH Darmstadt).

+ Numerous works by Marperger are available as digital copies in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel .

literature

• Hans-Peter Harstick : The cinematographer Paul Jacob Marperger (1856-1730) about poor relief and poor relief . In: Ursula Becker, Heiner M. Becker, Jaap Kloosterman (editor): No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 44-52.
• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Paul Jacob Marperger (1656–1730). In: Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque. Volume 4: Klaj - Postel (= Hiersemanns bibliographical handbooks 9, 4). 2nd improved and significantly increased edition. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 , pp. 2638-2672.
• Bruno Zieger: A Saxon Merkanit list about commercial schools and commercial science departments at universities. Leipzig 1899 (92 pages)
• Bruno Zieger: The commercial school concept in Saxony in the 18th century. Dresden 1900 (55 pages)
• Hannelore Lehrmann: Paul Jacob Marperger (1656 to 1730), a forgotten economist of the early German Enlightenment (attempt to provide an overview of his life and work). In: Yearbook for Economic History 1971 - Part IV, Berlin (Akademie-Verlag) 1971, pp. 125–157
• Peter Rupp: Baroque "Action Science" as a source of social history: the Poeta Caesareus Kommerzienrat Marperger from Nuremberg, a "terrible prolific writer" . Nuremberg 1979
• Hans Jaeger:  Paul Jakob Marperger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 234 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jakob Franck :  Marperger, Paul Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 405-407.
• Albrecht von Gleich: Marperger, Paul Jacob, In. Concise dictionary of business administration, 1st A., 1959

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Jacob Marperger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Paul Jacob Marperger in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library

Individual proof

1. ↑ Julius Arndt: Commentary on the book by Paul Jacob Marperger: Complete kitchen and cellar Dictionarium. Munich: Heimeran 1978, pp. 44–47.