Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann

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Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann (born May 4, 1748 in Steinau in Silesia, † February 5, 1818 in Hamburg ) was a German bookseller and publisher.

Life

Jacob von Döhren : Elisabeth and Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann (1785)
Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann came to Hamburg in 1775 and founded a publishing bookstore in 1781. As a publisher of the works of Johann Georg Büsch or the history of recent land and sea voyages in 20 volumes, he soon made a name for himself and was soon recognized in Hamburg not only as a Freemason due to his social commitment . The economic hardship and the censorship during the Hamburg French era led to a considerable restriction of his business and due to a careless statement in the French grammar by Simon Debonale , which he had published , he came under pressure from the French administration of Hamburg. All this forced him to do business with the bookseller August Campe (1772–1836), his son-in-law, who took over the management of the new company in 1810. This is how the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house in Hamburg, which still exists today, was created , which was taken over by Julius Campe in 1823 , while August Campe preferred to pursue his more specialized book trade interests under his own name.

Both Hoffmann and Campe were Freemasons . From 1804 to 1818 Hoffmann was the lodge master of the Hamburg lodge Zu den Drei Rosen . His daughter was the later Hamburg writer and salonière Elisabeth Campe .

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the publisher and printer's collective grave commemorates Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann (together with August Campe , Johann Heinrich Besser , Johann Wilhelm Mauke, among others ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemorative celebration for the immortalized state grandmaster in Berlin Br. JF von Neander and the immortalized prov. Grandmaster in Hamburg Br. BG Hoffmann on April 11, 1818: held by the Hochw. Prov.-Lodge v. Lower Saxony to Hamburg , Provincial Lodge of Lower Saxony <Hamburg>. - [Hamburg]: Langhoff, [1818]
  2. ↑ Answer to the justification of the appeal on the part of Sieur Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann ... against Sieur Simon Debonale ... against the knowledge of the provisional higher court in Hamburg regarding the utilization of the rescission of a contract of July 5th, 1811 , Hamburg, printed by Johann Georg Langhoff, 1813.
  3. ^ Nephew of the Braunschweig publisher Joachim Heinrich Campe ; Biographical information on August von Campe in the ADB by Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Benjamin Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinau in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1818
Place of death Hamburg