Ambrosius Haude

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Memorial plaque on the Nikolaikirchplatz (Mitte) house in Berlin-Mitte

Johann Ambrosius Haude (born April 4, 1690 in Schweidnitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz , † May 17, 1748 in Berlin ) was a bookseller and publisher. He was the founder and publisher of the Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrte Dinge , which later became one of the two largest and most important newspapers in Berlin as Spenersche Zeitung .

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Haude came from a wealthy family and was the son of Caspar and Anna Dorothea Haude, nee. Krause. He enjoyed a good education and mastered French and Latin. In 1723 he took over a Berlin publishing bookstore founded in 1614. This had got into financial difficulties between 1700 and 1723 under the owner Johann Christoph Papen.

The bookstore was opposite the Royal Palace. Haude made friends through a contact with his tutor Duhan with the Prussian Crown Prince and later King Friedrich II , whose musical inclinations he promoted and supported. He secretly got the prince the books, which his father, the soldier king , would not allow him to read . The prince eventually owned a library of several thousand books hidden behind closed doors in Haude's bookstore. After the prince's attempt to escape in August 1730, this private library was sent to Holland via Hamburg and auctioned there.

By 1740 Haude had published 198 titles, including a splendid edition of the poems by Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz and the theologian Johann Gustav Reinbeck's reflections on the Augsburg confession . In 1735 he founded the journal Potsdammischer Staats- und schehrter Mercurius , which was banned by the king in 1737. In 1740, after Frederick had ascended to the throne, Haude received a printing privilege for his newspaper Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schulttenachen . After Haude's death, the newspaper was continued under the title Spenersche Zeitung and in the 19th century was the largest newspaper in Berlin alongside the Vossische Zeitung . Another magazine, the French-language Journal de Berlin , was also printed and distributed by Haude.

From 1744 the publishing house received the privilege to print all publications of the Royal Academy of Sciences , which made the company one of the leading publishers in Berlin. In addition to the magazines, current political and scientific books as well as cleanly printed and well-stocked classic editions were published by Haudes Verlag, 166 publications are listed from 1740 until his death.

Haude had already accepted his brother-in-law Johann Karl Spener as a partner in his business in 1740. After Haude's death, the company was continued by his wife and brother-in-law under the name Haude & Spener .

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  1. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt, Samuel Heinrich Spiker. Correspondence. Berlin 2007. p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Haude, Ambrosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haude, Johann Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1748
Place of death Berlin