Carl Bohn

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Carl Ernst Bohn (born September 12, 1749 in Hamburg , † May 12, 1827 in Weißenfels ) was a German bookseller and publisher .

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Carl Bohn was the eldest son of Johann Bohn and his first wife Anna Felginer. He took over his father's bookstore and expanded it to become the largest bookstore in Hamburg. At the same time, the bookstore developed into a center of literary life in the Hanseatic city. The biggest competitor was the Heroldsche Buchhandlung. Bohn managed to leave his competitors behind and set up a branch in Kiel . Here he was approved as a university bookseller in 1775. Close contacts to northern German writers such as Matthias Claudius and Johann Heinrich Voss helped .

In contrast to his father, Bohn broke new ground. He quickly saw the importance of the trading academy that Johann Georg Büsch and Christoph Daniel Ebeling had founded in 1768. Bohn published works that were used in camera science and geography and made this a specialty of the publisher. In addition to the writings of Büsch and Ebeling, Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus was one of the main authors.

Younger booksellers, including Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann and Friedrich Christoph Perthes , took over the market leadership in Hamburg at the end of the 18th century. The Patriotic Society of 1765 bought Bohn's house in 1805. The bookseller moved to Weißenfels in 1812 at the latest. Before that, he had sold the office building and most likely also the book store to the antiquarian C. E. Haeßler. August Campe received Bohn's publishing rights in 1816.

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SURNAME Bohn, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohn, Carl Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1827
Place of death Weissenfels