Arnold Hirt

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Ferdinand Hirt's New Read-Write Primer , Breslau 1919

Arnold Ludwig Hirt (born July 15, 1843 in Breslau , † October 25, 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher .

life and work

Arnold Hirt attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau from 1855 until his Abitur in 1863 (together with Wilhelm Dames and Martin Kirschner ) . He then studied history in Heidelberg . He spent several years in London and Paris to perfect his knowledge as a bookseller. Then he went back to Breslau to work with his father Ferdinand Hirt's publishing house , who was a bookseller and founder of the publishing house. In 1873 Arnold Hirt, who had already been chosen by his father to be his successor, founded his own publishing house in Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn . He married in 1874. The marriage remained childless.

Brigitte Augusti , Oskar Höcker , Friedrich J. Pajeken and Clementine Helm were among the authors of the books for young people that he looked after particularly well . Serpa Pinto should be mentioned among the travel book authors . After his father's death in 1879, Arnold Hirt took over the management of the regular Ferdinand Hirt, Königl publishing house in Breslau . University and publishing bookstore . With the purchase of IH Bons Verlag , Königsberg, in 1888, the range of publications was expanded to include religious literature . One of the authors here was Fritz Woike . Arnold Hirt himself published a number of geographical illustrated books under his pseudonym "Arnold Ludwig", together with Alwin Oppel . The original bookstore became one of the most important publishers in eastern Germany. Until the middle of the 20th century, generations of pupils of all types of school had books by Ferdinand Hirt in their satchels . Ferdinand Hirt's writing and reading primers as well as the geography for higher education by Ernst von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1784–1849) and Büttner's arithmetic book were particularly well known .

The publishing house was also important for the German and international Esperanto movement . Between 1911 and 1932 he published around 50 titles on and about Esperanto, including the leading dictionaries of their time by Emil Stark (1911), Paul Bennemann (1923, 1926) and in particular the Encyclopedic Dictionary Esperanto-German by Eugen Wüster (4 volumes A – K, 1923–1928, no more published) the later founder of scientific terminology . In addition to textbooks and grammars, he also published a series of Internacia Mondliteraturo (international world literature) with translations of world literature into Esperanto, as well as literature originally written in Esperanto, in particular the novels by Jan Fethke (pseudonym Jean Forge) or a volume of poetry by the Esperanto poet Marie Hankel . The standard works on the history of the Esperanto movement by Edmond Privat and the Originala Verkaro (collection of original writings) by the language initiator Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof (edited by Johannes Dietterle, 1929) were also published by Hirt.

After the de facto ban on Esperanto in National Socialist Germany, the publishing house ceased its activities for and for Esperanto and in 1938 transferred the remaining stocks and all publishing rights to the Internacia Cseh-Instituto . (Internationales Cseh-Institut) in The Hague.

The heirs initially continued the publishing house in Wroclaw. After 1945 the Ferdinand Hirt publishing house was re-established in Kiel . The Arnold-Hirt-Foundation in Heidelberg (Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg ) supports study trips and supports geographical publications.

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  1. ↑ La Praktiko (The Hague), 7th year 1938, No. 2 (74 - Feb.), p. 11.

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personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirt, Arnold Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, Esperantist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1928
Place of death Leipzig