Carl Geibel (publisher, 1842)
Carl Stephan Franz Geibel (born May 19, 1842 in Budapest , † June 5, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a German bookseller and publisher.
His parents were the bookseller Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Geibel (1806-1884) and Eleonore geb. Weisz (1820-?). He was married to Mathilde born in 1870. Baumgarten († 1905). With her he fathered the sons Hellmuth (1871–?), Friedrich Karl (1873–1904), Otto Karl (1874–?) And Carl Stephan Albert (1884–?).
He attended the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig and 1855-1858 the Ausfeld Educational Institution in Schnepfenthal . He then learned the book trade, initially in Leipzig at the F. Volckmar company . Further stations were in Gotha, Dorpat and Budapest. In 1866 he and his father took over the Berlin-based book trade and publisher Duncker & Humblot . They moved their headquarters from Berlin to Leipzig. They built Duncker & Humblot into one of the leading scientific publishers in the German Empire.
Carl Geibel was a founding member of the Verein für Socialpolitik in 1872 .
For his services to the scientific bookstores in Germany awarded him the University of Leipzig the legal honorary doctorate (1902).
literature
- Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Geibel, Carl (publisher) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 274.
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? . Edition 1909
- Franz Neubert (editor), German Contemporaries Lexicon , 1905
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geibel, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geibel, Carl Stephan Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1910 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |