Carl Christoph Stiller

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Carl Christoph Stiller (1824)

Carl Christoph Stiller , also Karl Christoph St. , pseudonym 1794 Peter Hammer (born May 16, 1763 in Strehlen , Silesia, † April 30, 1836 in Rostock ) was a German bookseller and publisher .

Live and act

Stiller was taught by private tutors and trained as a bookseller in Breslau . After a short stint in Joachim Heinrich Campe's school bookstore in Braunschweig , he came to Rostock and became an accountant in the Koppeschen bookstore founded by Johann Christian Sigismund Koppe and continued by his son Johann Hinrich Koppe (who was also mayor of Rostock) . In 1793 he married the granddaughter of the company founder, Lowisa Friederica, and after his death took over the bookstore at Christmas 1793. His wife died in 1802. At the census of 1819 Stiller appears with his second wife, Elisa, née. Scherer (* 1781), the daughter of the Rostock court cellar master, his son, Ferdinand Stiller (* 1806) and a foster daughter from Dresden, Eleonore Stiller (* 1807).

Under his leadership, the bookstore, which now traded as Stillersche Buchhandlung and was named court bookstore in 1819 , and the publishing house were greatly expanded. Stiller opened a branch in Schwerin in 1811.

The publishing house published the yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology (1803-1831) and Masonic writings, including the New Pocket Book for Freemasons (1801), Auserlesene Freemaurer-Lieder (1798, 1804) and the first bibliography on Freemasonry in Germany ( German Book of Freemasonry , 1830). Stiller was the editor of the Patriotic Archives of the Duchy of Mecklenburg (1801-1804), the Patriotic Maintenance Gazette for educated estates (1820) and the New Literary Scoreboard for Mecklenburg (1826-1836).

He donated his auction books to the Rostock City School and Rostock University Library, an extensive collection of portraits in 8 albums and 4 supplement albums, portraits with life news AZ

Fonts

  • Exquisite Masonic songs. Rostock 1798
  • German book studies of Freemasonry and the secret associations, orders and sects that are actually or allegedly related to it. Rostock and Schwerin 1830 ( digitized copy from the Bavarian State Library )

literature

  • Friedrich Brüssow: Carl Christoph Stiller. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 14/2 (1836) Weimar: Voigt 1838, pp. 899–902
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9779 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Christoph Stiller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Carl Christoph Stiller  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Pierre Marteau , after Emil Weller : The false and fictitious printing locations: Repertory of the German, Latin and French fonts that have been published under the false company since the invention of the art of printing. Volume 1, Leipzig: Engelmann 1864, p. 161.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Karl Raabe: Mecklenburgische Vaterlandskunde. Volume 2: Special regional and folklore of both grand duchies. Wismar: Hinstorff 1895, p. 533
  3. ↑ See the entry in the catalog of the Rostock University Library and Peter Hansson: Rostock "Bildnisse" an early "who is who": publisher Stiller set himself a permanent monument to his work in 1822. (Discoveries in the university library) In: Mecklenburg-Magazin. Schwerin: Landesverlags- und Druckgesellschaft 1999, 13, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Stiller, Carl Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiller, Karl Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Strehlen , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1836
Place of death Rostock