August Gottlob Liebeskind

August Gottlob Liebeskind (born August 1, 1763 in Leipzig ; † July 17, 1844 there ) was a German book and paper dealer and publisher in the trade fair city of Leipzig and owner of a manor .

Life

He was the son of Johann Christoph Liebeskind (1713–1781). August Gottlob Liebeskind founded a publishing and commission bookshop in Leipzig in September 1794. From the beginning he worked closely with the JV Degenschen bookstore in Vienna , with whom he published numerous works.

In 1803, August Gottlob Liebeskind bought the Schönewerda manor from the two testament heirs of the royal Prussian colonels Carl Gottlob Schmid von Wegwitz for the very high sum of around 100,000 Reichstalers .

In 1818 August Gottlob Liebeskind bought most of the former Himburg bookstore publisher in the Prussian capital of Berlin . From now on, the circle of people who published their works in this publishing house expanded.

In 1891 the publishing house was merged with the JG Cottaschen bookstore in Stuttgart .

family

His brothers were the citizen and goldsmith in Leipzig, Johann Heinrich Liebeskind, who acquired the manor Schönewerda in the Tennstedt district office for 98,800 thalers in 1803. His brother Daniel Christoph Liebeskind was rector in Gdansk .

August Gottlob Liebeskind married Fransisca Elise nee Wagner. From this marriage the son August Heinrich Liebeskind, born on May 12, 1800, emerged, who was baptized on May 25 in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. The son Gustav Heinrich Liebeskind was born in 1802.

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literature

Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. Deutsche Buchdrucker , Volume 4, Berlin and Eberswalde , 1907, p. 615.

Individual evidence

↑ Katrin Löffler: "Ordered to Watchful Supervision" The publisher Gottfried Vollmer in the sights of the Leipzig Book Commission . In: Martin Mulsow , Dirk Sangmeister (Hrsg.): Subversive literature: Erfurt authors and publishers in the age of the French Revolution (1780–1806) . Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1439-9 , pp. 178 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 16, 2017]).
↑ The Prussian Colonel Carl Gottlob Schmid von Wegwitz was heir, feudal lord and court lord on Wegwitz, Nempitz and Zscherneddel and had bought the Schönewerda manor in 1799 for 120,000 thalers from the Thuringian noble family von Seebach . In his will, he made his son and niece from the Saxon noble family von Bose the universal heirs.

personal data
SURNAME	Liebeskind, August Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German book and paper dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1844
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Katrin Löffler: "Ordered to Watchful Supervision" The publisher Gottfried Vollmer in the sights of the Leipzig Book Commission . In: Martin Mulsow , Dirk Sangmeister (Hrsg.): Subversive literature: Erfurt authors and publishers in the age of the French Revolution (1780–1806) . Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1439-9 , pp. 178 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 16, 2017]).

[2] The Prussian Colonel Carl Gottlob Schmid von Wegwitz was heir, feudal lord and court lord on Wegwitz, Nempitz and Zscherneddel and had bought the Schönewerda manor in 1799 for 120,000 thalers from the Thuringian noble family von Seebach . In his will, he made his son and niece from the Saxon noble family von Bose the universal heirs.