Abraham Horodisch

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Prince Bernhard and Abraham Horodisch (right) in 1978

Abraham Horodisch (born February 3, 1898 in Łódź , Russian Empire , † November 7, 1987 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch antiquarian , bibliophile collector and author of literary works.

Life

Abraham Horodisch attended high school in Königsberg in the German Empire and moved to Berlin with his family in 1914 . In 1920 he founded the Euphorion-Verlag with a bibliophile program , his partner was Ernst Rathenau, nephew of Walther Rathenau . After separating from Euphorion, he and Moses Marx founded the publishing house Marx & Co. in 1924 and, at the suggestion of Herrmann Meyer, the Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book . He played a key role in the bibliophile editions of the Soncino Society. When the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Horodisch left Germany and emigrated to Amsterdam . There he opened the “Erasmus Antiquarian Book Shop” in 1934, which he managed for five decades. During the Second World War he stayed in France and then in Switzerland, after which he returned to the Netherlands. Horodisch was married to the graphic artist Alice Garnmann.

Services

Horodisch is the author of several works on book art and book illustration , including "Alfred Kubin as a book illustrator" (1949) and "Pablo Picasso as a book artist" (1957). Horodisch was also a bibliophile collector who has amassed an important book collection on topics of book history, the history of printing and the publishing industry. This collection of approx. 8000 volumes is located today as the Horodisch Collection at the library of Tel Aviv University . A chair named after him, the Horodisch Chair for the History of Books, was established at Tel Aviv University . On the occasion of Horodisch's sixtieth birthday, a commemorative publication entitled Amor librorum was published with international contributions from renowned book scholars and colleagues. A commemorative publication De arte et libris was published to mark the 50th anniversary of the second-hand bookshop and bookstore Erasmus . In 1985, two years before his death, Abraham Horodisch received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam for his scientific publications.

literature

  • Amor librorum. Studia bibliographica necnon alia miscellanea Abrahamo Horodisch sexagenarie oblata. Bibliographic and other Essays: A Tribute to Abraham Horodisch on his 60th Birthday . Erasmus Antiquariaat, Amsterdam / Safaho Foundation, Zurich 1958.
  • Fritz Homeyer: German Jews as Bibliophiles and Antiquaries , 2nd edition, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1966 (series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute; 10), pp. 55–56.
  • De arte et libris . Festschrift Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel, Amsterdam 1984, ISBN 90-9000711-3
  • Sytze van der Veen: 75 Years of Erasmus Boekhandel Amsterdam-Paris , Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-94-90234-03-4
  • Horodisch, Abraham , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 163
  • Horodisch, Abraham , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 541f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature by and about Alice Horodisch in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ See the website of the Horodisch Collection ( Memento from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Horodic, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch antiquarian, bibliophile collector and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1987
Place of death Amsterdam