August Robert Friese

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August Robert Friese (born April 28, 1805 in Dresden , † November 7, 1848 in Leipzig ) was a publisher and bookseller in Leipzig.

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As the only son of Carl August Friese, who founded a music publishing house in Pirna in 1803, he attended the institute of Magister Döring until he was 14 years old. He then did a commercial apprenticeship at the Seelig material dealer in Pirna , where he then worked as a commercial clerk for a year. However, his interests were more in the book trade, for this purpose he entered the business of the bookseller Ernst Kollmann in Leipzig in 1825. In order to gain further experience in the book trade, he then worked as a trainee at the bookseller Cnobloch. His years of traveling took him to Kassel and Marburg, only to return to Leipzig. In 1828 he took over his father's bookstore in Pirna and at the same time opened a music store in Dresden under his name AR Friese. In the same year on July 17th he married Cäcilie Friese.

After gaining experience as a publishing bookseller in Dresden, he returned to Leipzig with his family on September 9, 1833 and founded a publishing and assortment bookstore. In July 1837, Friese bought Robert Schumann's “Neue Zeitschrift für Musik”. In addition to his job, he dealt with politics and got to know Robert Blum . In 1841, out of friendship with Blum, he took over the bookselling commission of the "Saxon Fatherland Papers" . On August 1, 1847, he became a partner in the new Robert Blum & Compagnie publishing bookstore.

In the March days of 1848, when the political unrest in Leipzig began, he got pneumonia at one of the many popular events that he attended late into the night. He did not recover from this illness and died on November 7, 1848. Two days later, Robert Blum was shot as a revolutionary in Brigittenau near Vienna. Robert Friese left a widow and six children.

literature

  • Weltanschauung as a publishing task. Thomas Seng. Otto Reichl Publishing House. Page 43.
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Letters to German publishers. 1968. page 346.
  • Robert Schumann diaries. Volume II, 1836-1854, page 600.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Twenty-sixth year, 1848. Second part Weimar 1850. Page 699

Web links

  • Friese, Robert , in Schmidt: German booksellers. German printer at zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Friese, August Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1848
Place of death Leipzig