Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker, 1867.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (born March 25, 1781 in Berlin , † July 15, 1869 in Berlin) was a German publisher.

Life

Duncker's father was the merchant Christian Wilhelm Duncker . His mother was Charlotte (née Adolphie) . He himself married Fanny Levy in 1810, a daughter of the banker and army supplier Wolff Levy. Her sons included the historian Maximilian Duncker , the publisher Alexander Duncker , the publisher and politician Franz Duncker and the Berlin mayor Hermann Carl Rudolf Duncker .

Old age portrait of Duncker

After a brief visit to the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin, Duncker switched to a commercial school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. From 1800 to 1805 he also trained as a bookseller in Leipzig . In 1806 he joined Heinrich Frölich's bookstore. After his death a few weeks later, Duncker took over management of the company. In 1809 he and Peter Humblot bought the company, which has since operated under the name Duncker & Humblot . Since the partner's death in 1828, Duncker has been the sole owner.

The first authors included a. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , ETA Hoffmann and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué . But Duncker, like Frölich before, concentrated the publishing business on scientific works. In particular, he published representatives of the new source-critical direction of historiography. So Leopold von Ranke switched from another publisher to Duncker & Humblot. Duncker also published the yearbooks of German history since 1862 . In addition, since 1832 he published all of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's works. The Litterarian newspaper (1834–1845) and the yearbooks for scientific criticism were also published by Duncker.

Duncker had been a member of the board of directors of the German Booksellers Association since 1824 . Between 1828 and 1831 he was chairman of the organization. He was also a city councilor in Berlin for fifteen years and from May to November 1848 a member of the Prussian National Assembly .

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker died in Berlin in 1869 at the age of 88 and was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved. On the plinth of the grave of his son Franz Duncker in the neighboring Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church there is a small inscription plaque that reminds of him.

The publisher was sold to the Leipzig publisher Carl Geibel in 1869 while retaining its name.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 212, 241.
personal data
SURNAME Duncker, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1869
Place of death Berlin