Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz
Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz (born March 4, 1798 in Leipzig ; † April 16, 1884 there ; alternatively also: Karl) was a German publisher , theologian and philanthropist .
Life
Tauchnitz was the son of the Leipzig printer and publisher Carl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761–1836) and his wife Friederike Sophie, née Dürr (1770–1843), who also came from a printer family.
He first attended the Francisceum grammar school in Zerbster and studied - against his father's wishes - Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen and Basel . Then Tauchnitz lived for some time in London and Basel to take on a Christian missionary activity to devote. After the death of his father, Tauchnitz gave up his theological career in order to continue his father's company, which consisted of a publishing house , printer and type foundry . In old age he finally withdrew from business life in order to live as a private citizen.
Tauchnitz was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .
Act
In addition to his missionary work in England and Switzerland, Tauchnitz also worked for free church communities in Germany , in particular for the Mennonites in the Palatinate , Baden and Hesse, and also preached there.
After 1836, Tauchnitz initially expanded the Carl Tauchnitz Verlag , a. a. through numerous dictionaries in different languages and free church writings. From 1844 to 1865, however, he gradually sold the company. When the classic editions and dictionaries were handed over to Otto Holtze Verlag in 1865 , the Carl Tauchnitz company finally expired .
Aftermath
With his income as a publisher and the proceeds from the sale of his father's company, Tauchnitz set up seven foundations that continued to exist for a long time after his death:
- 1870: Workers' Housing Foundation
- 1877: Seminarist Scholarship Foundation
- 1881: Sophienstiftung
- 1882: Anonymous Foundation for the city hospital , hospice foundation and endowment of a philanthropist
- 1884: Foundation of a philanthropist for the orphanage
The most significant institution was the foundation of a philanthropist , which Tauchnitz endowed with more than 4 million gold marks in his will . The foundation was administered by the city of Leipzig and from 1885 had the status of a legal person . Tauchnitz wanted to see social purposes in particular and had left the restrictions on not using the property for church purposes, luxury buildings or the theater.
Tauchnitz 'tomb in Leipzig's north cemetery was created by Hugo Licht in 1892 . In 1885 a street in the music district in what is now Leipzig's center-south district was named after Tauchnitz ( Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße ) .
literature
- Gustav Wustmann : Tauchnitz, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 442 f. The information on Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz can be found in the General German Biography in the entry on his father
- City archive Leipzig (Ed.): Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, p. 119
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer A. Bast: The Philosophical Library: History and Bibliography of a Philosophical Text Series since 1868. Meiner, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-7873-0933-0 , p. 60.
- ^ Christian Neff: Tauchnitz, Carl Christian Philipp (1798-1884). In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia. 1959. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tauchnitz, Carl Christian Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tauchnitz, Karl Christian Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher, theologian and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1884 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |