Carl August Sonnewald
Carl August Sonnewald was a German bookseller . He was the trainer of the bookseller apprentice Hermann Hesse .
biography
Carl August Sonnewald came from a Stuttgart antiquarian, book trade and publisher family. After a stay abroad, he returned to Tübingen from London and in 1880 bought the second-hand bookshop JJ Heckenhauer, founded in 1823, leaving its traditional name. It has been family-owned since then, now in the fourth generation.
His apprentice Hermann Hesse had great respect for him, whom he considered very well-educated, although he spoke Swabian , and wrote about him:
- "I will be exhausted when Mr. Sonnewald comes back and his ranting starts again. But then maybe I'll be more undisturbed, now I'm just a dog boy for the others."
Under Sonnewald's aegis, Heckenhauer sold the library of Ludwig Uhland and that of the theologian and university chancellor Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker , an ancestor of the former Federal President. Customers were libraries and professors such as B. Werner Sombart , then 29-year-old professor of political science in Breslau. In his publishing house he published books by the then important legal historian Franz von Thudichum as well as some dissertations, especially philological ones.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans Widmann: Tübingen as a publishing city. With 16 plates, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1971, 268 pages.
- ↑ Maximilian Keller: Passion for photographs. Fourth generation: Roger Sonnewald runs the Heckenhauer photo gallery. Die Welt, May 14, 2004.
- ^ Hermann Hesse: Letter to Johannes and Marie Hesse , 14. – 15. June 1896 in Childhood and Youth (2: 115ff.)
- ^ Richard C. Helt: A Poet Or Nothing at All: The Tübingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse. Berghahn Books, 1996, pages 43-44.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sonnewald, Carl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century or 20th century |