Albert Cohn (Antiquarian)

Albert Cohn (born February 21, 1827 in Berlin ; † August 24, 1905 there ) was a German bookseller , antiquarian and Shakespeare researcher of Jewish origin.

Life

Albert Cohn got a job in 1848 in the publishing house of the bookseller Adolf Asher . After Asher's death in 1853, he continued his company and was its main owner and manager until 1870, then its sole owner until 1874. He then founded his own antiquarian bookshop in Berlin, which was dedicated to the sale of literary rarities of all times and all language areas as well as the autograph trade. Cohn's catalogs were valued as a bibliographic aid.

When Cohn was still working for Asher, he came into contact with the subject of Shakespeare for the first time due to the cataloging of Ludwig Tieck's book holdings, which had been released for sale . In response to Tieck's suggestion that the influence of English theater actors on the German stage had not been adequately researched, Cohn turned to this topic and wrote Shakespeare in Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth churches (1865), which also attracted attention in Great Britain. He also wrote contributions to the yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society , especially from 1864 to 1900 its Shakespeare bibliography.

Publications

• Shakespeare in Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth churches . London, Berlin 1865.

literature

• Cohn, Albert , in: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon , 14th edition, 1892–96, Vol. 4, p. 408.
• Robert Prager: Albert Cohn . In: Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 42, 1906, pp. 220-224.
• Erich Carlsohn: Albert Cohn. A Berlin antiquarian, scholar and philanthropist . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 16, 1960, pp. 748–752.
• Fritz Homeyer: German Jews as Bibiophiles and Antiquaries , 2nd Edition, Tübingen: Mohr 1966, pp. 18-20.
• Erich Carlsohn: Albert Cohn's Shakespeare research . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 23, 1967, p. 679.

Web links

• Albert Cohn , in: The Digital Shakespeare Memorial Album