Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann

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Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (Portrait by JJ Schmeller, 1830)
Portrait of the bookseller C.Frommann (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting , 1824)

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (born September 14, 1765 in Züllichau , † June 12, 1837 in Jena ) was a German publisher and bookseller in Jena.

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Training and development of the publishing house

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann was born as the son of the bookseller Nathanael Sigismund Frommann in Züllichau / Neumark (today Sulechów, a small town in the Polish Lebus voivodeship ). He received his training in Berlin from August Mylius . In 1786 he took over the management of the family publishing house, which initially operated under the name Nathanael Sigismund Frommanns Erben and was later renamed “Züllichau bei Friedrich Frommann”. While the publishing program previously only included the fields of theology and philosophy , Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann successfully expanded the repertoire to include school and language dictionaries. The “Critical Greek-German Concise Dictionary” by Johann Gottlob Schneider-Saxo was published in 1797 by his publisher.

Spiritual center of classical music in Jena

In 1798 Frommann relocated the publishing house from Züllichau to Jena in order to be closer to the intellectual center of the time, Weimar and the university town of Jena.

Between 1794 and 1805 Jena housed many creative spirits such as Friedrich Schiller , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , the brothers August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel , Johann Ludwig Tieck , Clemens Brentano , Johann Heinrich Voß , Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer , Zacharias Werner , Jean Paul , Ernst Moritz Arndt , August Friedrich Karl Ziegesar (1746–1813) and others, and among them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Frommann and Goethe

Goethe 1811 (pastel drawing by Louise Seidler )

The publisher managed to win over all the famous authors of the time and his house became a social center in Jena. As early as 1799 he received the privilege of opening a printing house. Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann was married to Johanna Wesselhöfft (1765–1830), with whom he raised an orphaned foster daughter in addition to his son. Relations with Goethe developed very amicably, especially in 1806 and 1807. The strong affection of the now sixty-year-old poet for Frommann's foster daughter Wilhelmine Herzlieb , known as Minna or Minchen, gave the sociable hours in the winter of 1807 a special color. She encouraged Goethe to sonnets nwettstreit with Zacharias Werner to, was also inspiration for the character of Ottilie in the " Elective Affinities " and perhaps inspiration on the " Pandora " .

Handover of the publishing house

Tomb at the Johannisfriedhof in Jena

In 1825 Frommann took his son Friedrich Johannes Frommann into the publishing business and withdrew from the publishing business after 1830. In 1836 he received honorary citizenship of the city of Leipzig and died a year later at the age of 71.

The publisher today

The former Frommannsche Verlag still exists today under the name frommann-Holzboog Verlag . He mainly publishes works in the humanities with a focus on philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis and related sciences. The publishing house has been based in Stuttgart since 1886 .

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SURNAME Frommann, Carl Friedrich Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frommann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Züllichau
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1837
Place of death Jena