Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner

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Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner. From a publisher's edition with a modern reproduction of a representation by Teubner from around 1811; Leipzig 1911
Grave tablets of the BG Teubner family

Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner (born June 16, 1784 in Großkrausnigk near Luckau , † January 21, 1856 in Leipzig ) was a German bookseller and founder of the publishing house .

Life

Teubner was a book printer , acquired the Weinedelsche Buchdruckerei zu Leipzig in 1811 , which he had been managing since 1806, and which he expanded through energy and skill into one of the most important in Germany. In addition, in 1832 he founded a printing company in Dresden that still existed at the end of the 19th century . The reputation of the company was also due to the development of the publishing business founded in 1824 in connection with the printing company, which asserted itself in the field of philology and higher education in Germany, and of whose undertakings the “ Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana “The most famous is. In Leipzig he was a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge .

Teubner died on January 21, 1856 in Leipzig and left the business to his sons-in-law Christian Adolf Roßbach (1822–1898) and Albin Ackermann .

Honors

Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Awarded Teubner the gold medal of homage for the work History of Book Printing , published in 1840, “as an acknowledgment of the typographical value of this typeface”, and the English royal couple, to whom a copy had been presented, awarded him the gold coronation medal. King Friedrich August of Saxony had accepted the dedication.

Teubnerstraße in Leipzig is named after Teubner.

See also

literature

  • Johannes Müller: On the history of the publishing house and graphic company BG Teubner. In: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the publishing house and the graphics company BG Teubner. Leipzig 1961.
  • Gustav Wustmann :  Teubner, Benedikt Gotthelf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 609-611.
  • Jürgen Weiß: BG Teubner on his 225th birthday: Adam Ries - Völkerschlacht - FA Brockhaus - Augustusplatz - Leipziger Zeitung - Börsenblatt. Edition at Gutenbergplatz, Leipzig 2009. EAGLE 035. ISBN 3-937219-35-8 , ISBN 978-3-937219-35-6 .
  • Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 6. Berlin / Eberswalde 1908, pp. 1081-1087.
  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 19. Leipzig 1909, p. 443.
  • Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. Fifth edition, volume 2. Leipzig 1911., p. 824.
  • Teubner . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 422 ( zeno.org ).
  • Teubner . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 611.

Web links

Commons : BG Teubner Verlag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Schulze (ed.): BG Teubner. 1811-1911. Company history . Leipzig 1911, p. 58 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Teubner, Benedictus Gotthelf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and founder of the publishing house
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Großkrausnigk
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1856
Place of death Leipzig