Bernhard Friedrich Voigt

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Bernhard Friedrich Voigt

Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (born July 5, 1787 in Weimar ; † February 17, 1859 there ) was a German patriot, bookseller and publisher .

Life

origin

Bernhard Friedrich was a nephew of the Saxon-Weimar State Minister Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743-1819) and the only son of the mineralogist and close friend of Goethe's Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (1752-1821).

Career

Voigt was raised by the pastor in Pfungstadt from the age of 10 . In 1800 he moved to the grammar school in Schleusingen . From 1801 he was an apprentice in the Hoffmann'sche bookstore in Weimar and then from 1804 found a job as an assistant in the bookstore of Wilhelm Rein & Co. in Leipzig.

After he had freed Prussian prisoners of war who were held by the French in the Neukirche , he emigrated to Basel in the summer of 1807 , where he took over the management of Samuel Flick's bookstore. Voigt had written a travelogue from Leipzig to Basel, which was published by Heinrich Zschokke in his mishap for the latest world customer .

After Voigt and Samuel Flick rejected the issue because of an unauthorized reprint, he went to Nuremberg in 1808 and worked in the Friedrich Campe'schen bookstore . He later took over the management of the bookstore at Heigl & Co. in Straubing , but in 1810 he moved on to Freiburg im Breisgau to continue his work as managing director of the Herder'sche publishing house .

In November 1811 he returned to Ilmenau , where his father was Bergrat in his childhood days , and in January 1812 he opened his own bookstore in Sondershausen and organized the book trade in Thuringia. After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig he founded a newspaper, the fruits of rescued freedom of the press , which was later called Teutonia and which appeared in Sondershausen at the end of the 19th century under the title Der Deutsche .

In 1822 he sold his business and moved to Ilmenau again to devote himself exclusively to the publishing business. His publishing house increasingly specialized in the field of technical specialist literature. In 1825 he participated in the founding of the German Booksellers' Association in Leipzig and finally moved to Weimar in 1834, where, in addition to the publishing business, he also ran the book printing, lithography and bookbinding business.

Voigt was a respected man with great merit in his trade. He received the title of court bookseller from Prince Günther Friedrich Carl I von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . During the reign of Carl Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach he received the Great Gold Medal on the Ribbon of the Order of the Falcons and was appointed Grand Ducal Commissioner . He was also honored with the Golden Medal of Merit of Prussia and a corresponding adequacy from the Baden government. In Ilmenau he was appointed city elder. In 1828 he was appointed to the state parliament of the constituency of Ilmenau and later also to the city council of Weimar.

family

Voigt had three sons who continued his publishing business but eventually sold them.

  • Karl (1814–1877)
  • Heinrich (1828–1902)
  • August (1831–1887)

Works

author
  • The 1806 campaign in Germany. Leipzig 1807.
publisher
  • Fruits of saved freedom of press. Sondershausen 1814.
  • Venue of the arts and crafts. (287 volumes up to 1896)
  • New necrology of the Germans . 1823-1852.
  • Community ordinance sheet. Weimar 1848.

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personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patriot, bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1859
Place of death Weimar