Adam Friedrich Geisler

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Adam Friedrich Geisler , the younger (also Geissler or Geissler) (born May 12, 1757 in Rehmsdorf near Zeitz ; † probably around 1800) was a German (Saxon) writer and publisher.

education

From 1772 to 1774 Geisler attended the Fürstenschule Schulpforta and then studied law and camera science at the University of Leipzig .

Author, editor, publisher

Mainly in the 1780s Geisler published a lot of works. Many anonymously published were also attributed to him.

The romances published in Mitau, today Jelgava (Latvia) in 1774, are also credited to the then 17-year-old.

In 1781 the comedy The Two Changelings appeared in Bremen , or What does the imagination not do? with the author "AF G - r, the young".

In 1782/83 Geisler published the first, but very controversial, edition of Ludwig Hölty's poems . In the 19th century it became clear that the allegations were exaggerated.

In the bookstore of the scholars in Dessau he ensured the most successful title with: Adam Friedrich Geisler's, the youngest, history and state of the Royal-Great Britain war power on water and on land from the earliest times up to the year 1784. In addition to an outline of the last American . War ... The "bookstore of scholars" in Dessau was a " self-publishing company for authors on a cooperative basis that existed until 1788."

The archive of female main knowledge published by Geisler is seen as the first German women's magazine for everyday problems ("Hausfrauenblatt").

Illustrator

Geisler also published a collection of “Views of the City of Leipzig” - again with a controversial part. Pictures signed with "Geisler jun." Are mostly assigned to Adam Friedrich Geisler, the younger, but also to Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler , a Leipzig copperplate engraver who appeared at the same time.

Withdrawal from the public

In 1794 Geisler sold a large part of his publishing rights to Prague to Albrecht und Komp . He had previously worked with Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht and his wife Sophie Albrecht .

literature

  • Hilmar Schmuck, Willi Gorzny (Ed.): Complete directory of German-language literature (GV) 1700–1900. Volume 44. Gat - Gek. Munich 1982, p. 413 ff. (Collection of prints connected with AF Geisler; including the remark on p. 414 that he was still alive in 1823)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ d-nb.info or Friedrich Raßmann : Short literary dictionary of the deceased German poets and writers, eight periods from 1137-1824. Leipzig 1826, p. 446
  2. ^ Heinrich Bittcher : gatekeeper album: directory of all teachers and students of the royal family. Prussia. State school Pforta from 1543 to 1843. Leipzig 1843, p. 371
  3. ↑ The learned Teutschland. Volume 2, Lemgo 1796, p. 512ff.
  4. ↑ z. B. Christiane Hansen: Transformations of the Phaethon myth in German literature. 2012, p. 379 or Werklink @ worldcat.org; according to Baltic literatures in Goethe's time. Würzburg 2011, pp. 209f. , there would have been an "Adam Friedrich Geisler, the elder" - but "the elder" was Adam's brother Johann David Geisler, b. December 29, 1753, a pastor in Wittgendorf , see Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the German writers now living. 1st supplement to the 4th edition, Lemgo 1786, p. 191 ; Volume 9, 1801, p. 408 ; Adam Friedrich Geisler, the younger, life and character of Leopold, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. 1786, list of prenumerants ("Mr. Joh. David Geisler, the elder, pastor in Wittgendorf and Dragsdorf in the Zeiz pen.")
  5. ↑ View of the works ( SLUB Dresden )
  6. ↑ see Wikisource: Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty
  7. ↑ Mr. Halm speaks: “About the Vossian treatment of Hölty's poems” in: session reports of the royal. bayer. Academy of Science. Volume 2, 1868, p. 121ff.
  8. ↑ Stephanie Rahmede: The bookstore of the scholars in Dessau: a contribution to the emancipation of writers around 1800. Volume 16 of Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 87
  9. ↑ see Helmut Hiller:  Göschen, Georg Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 541-543 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ z. B. Leipzig Intelligence Journal. 10/1788, pp. 75f. (5th right)
  11. ^ Dietmar Strauch, Margarete Rehm: Lexicon book - library - new media. 2007, p.185, article "Frauenzeitschrift" ; The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook. 2005, p. VII right
  12. ↑ partly with Carl Benjamin Schwarz (e), see Benjamin Gottfried Weinart : An attempt at a literature on Saxon history and political science. Volume 1, Dresden / Leipzig 1790, p. 210
  13. ↑ see also Johann Heinrich Jugler (?): Leipzig and its university a hundred years ago. Reprint of the original from 1879, p. 126ff. ; General artist lexicon. Part 2, Section 7, Zurich 1813, p. 1571 (bottom right), 1572 (top left) under "Schwarz, Carl ..."
  14. ↑ Enlightenment of the world. Saxony and the beginning of modern science. Exhibition catalog for 600 years of Leipzig University, 2009, p. 68f.
  15. ^ Person Geisler, AF in the object database of the Leipzig City History Museum . Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  16. ↑ z. B. Inventory number: G 156/5 / Gb in the object database of the Leipzig City History Museum. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  17. ↑ General directory of the books which were published in the Frankfurt and Leipzig Easter fair of the 1794 year ... Leipzig 1794, p. 205
  18. ↑ Dirk Sangmeister: From reading flowers and secret societies. in: Heinrich Bosse, Otto-Heinrich Elias , Thomas Taterka (eds.): Baltic literatures in the time of Goethe. Würzburg 2011, pp. 411-487, especially pp. 457ff.
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Adam Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geissler, Adam Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehmsdorf
DATE OF DEATH around 1800