Abraham Hirsch

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Gluntarne by Gunnar Wennerberg was published by Abraham Hirsch

Abraham Hirsch (born August 16, 1815 in Stockholm ; † February 23, 1900 there ) was a Swedish , Jewish music publisher .

Life

Hirsch was one of the nine children of Isak David Hirsch and Juliana Lazarus. His grandfather was David Hirsch, who immigrated from Strelitz (Mecklenburg) in 1792 and initially became a trader, but later became a successful entrepreneur with 60 employees in a cotton printing company called David Hirsch and Sons . In 1821 Isak David, who was born in Strelitz in 1776, became a Swedish citizen like his siblings . Then he finally got his license as a sugar refiner and was even more successful than his father.

At the age of sixteen, when his brother-in-law Abraham Salomonsson died in 1831, Abraham Hirsch ran the oldest music store in Stockholm, Östergrenska musik-och bokhandel , including a lending library , instrument store and publishing house. This was opened in 1803 under the name Magazin de Musique by Pär Aron Borg and Ulrik Immanuel Mannerhierta (1775–1849). In 1837, Abraham Hirsch acquired his sister Betty's business. He initially concentrated on the publishing business and opened a lithography printing house a year later . The instrument trade became a separate business and was therefore outsourced. In 1843 he helped found the Swedish Publishers' Association.

With other publishers he created the Musikaliska konstföreningen in 1860 , the aim of which was to print contemporary Swedish music that otherwise would have remained unprinted for economic reasons.

Hirsch was married to Pauline Meyerson (July 3, 1827 - September 23, 1908). They had eight children:

  1. Ernst Isak Hirsch (born: March 19, 1849)
  2. Ida Juliana (born: January 31, 1851)
  3. Clara Beata (born: May 10, 1852)
  4. Esther Elisa (born: July 10, 1854)
  5. Ivar Herman (born: April 11, 1856)
  6. Otto Joseph (born: October 1, 1858)
  7. Betty Hirsch (born: June 11, 1862)
  8. Hanna Hirsch (born: January 13, 1864)

He published in the ora Nygatan 12 along with others Adolf Fredrik Lindblad , Otto Lindblad and Gunnar Wennerberg . Since 1864 he headed a music academy and in 1868 received the Wasa Order for his services to the city conservatory. Hirsch also owned shares in Aftonbladet , a liberal newspaper.

In connection with his publishing house, he founded Stockholms musik-tidning in October 1843 , which appeared weekly until June 1844, making it one of the longest-lived in Sweden at that time. In 1874 the music business was taken over by Julius Bagge (1844–1890), while six years later his son Ivar Hirsch and his son Otto took over the publishing house six years later. His daughter Hanna Hirsch was a painter.

Hirsch's sister Sophie was the wife of the publisher Adolf Bonnier .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pär Westberg: The Hirsch Family in Stockholm and Grandfather's Time . In: Peter Stenberg (Ed.): Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden: An Anthology . Pp. 25-37, p. 25.
  2. ^ Pär Westberg: The Hirsch Family in Stockholm and Grandfather's Time . In: Peter Stenberg (Ed.): Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden: An Anthology . Pp. 25-37, p. 26.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Kirsti Grinde; Stockholms musik-tidning at the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals , 1997 (PDF; 755 kB)
  4. ↑ bagge.baggebo.nu  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bagge.baggebo.nu  
  5. ↑ a b runeberg.org
  6. ↑ hem.bredband.net (PDF)
  7. ↑ L'Univers israélite: journal des principes conservateurs du judaisme , 1868, p. 431.
  8. ↑ August Strindberg : Strindberg's letters 1862-1892 , Volume 1. ISBN 0-485-11410-0 , p. 376.
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish, Jewish music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1900
Place of death Stockholm