Carl Gustav Schwetschke

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The grave of Carl Gustav Schwetschke in Halle's Stadtgottesacker

Carl Gustav Schwetschke (born April 5, 1804 in Halle (Saale) , † October 4, 1881 there ) was a German publisher .

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Dr. hc Carl Gustav Schwetschke was born on April 5, 1804 in Halle (Saale). He completed his training as a bookseller with the Braunschweig publisher Friedrich Vieweg . From 1821 to 1824 he studied philology in Halle and Heidelberg. There he joined the fraternities of the Old Hallesche Burschenschaft (1821) and the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft (1822). On December 1, 1828, his father Carl August Schwetschke took him on as a partner in the Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house , which he then sold to Ed. Schimmel sold in Leipzig. In the same year his brother Carl Ferdinand Schwetschke died . Carl Gustav Schwetschke therefore took over the orphaned management of the CA Schwetschke & Sohn publishing house , which was sold to Moritz Bruhn from Schleswig-Holstein on May 1, 1851 and relocated to Braunschweig shortly afterwards. Carl Gustav Schwetschke died on October 4, 1881 in Halle (Saale).

Schwetschke initially made a name for himself as a publisher; so he founded z. For example, in 1852, together with Otto Ule , Karl Müller and Emil Adolf Roßäßler, the important and successful magazine Die Natur , which was then combined from 1901 with the Naturwissenschaftlichen Rundschau published by the Braunschweig Vieweg Verlag .

In addition, Schwetschke made a great contribution to bookselling interests. He founded the library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and wrote the Codex nundinarius Germaniae literatae (1850), a set of basic statistics for German publishers and their activities from 1564 to 1846.

Carl Gustav Schwetschke was politically active as a city councilor in Halle (Saale) and in 1848 as a member of the preliminary parliament and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , where he joined the casino parliamentary group. In the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848-1851) he was on the side of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

On December 8, 1828, Schwetzschke was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zu den Drei Degen in Halle, in which his father Carl August and his brother Carl Ferdinand were already members. He was also active as an author in Masonic research. The boxes Balduin zur Linde and Apollo in Leipzig and Zum aufblühenden Baum in Eisleben elected him an honorary member.

His grave is on Halle's Stadtgottesacker (inner field I).

Honor

Schwetschkestrasse in Halle (Saale) is named after the Schwetschke publishing family.

Works

  • Pre-academic book printer history in the city of Halle . Hall, 1840. urn : nbn: de: S2W-3135
  • Paleographic evidence of the inauthenticity of the Cologne Freemason certificate v. J. 1535 . Hall, 1843. urn : nbn: de: S2W-3148
  • Schneidemüller song, with 6 accompanying pieces. CA Schwetschke & Sohn, Halle 1845. Digitized
  • Codex nundinarius Germaniae literatae bisecularis. Measurement yearbooks of the German book trade . With an introduction by Gustav Schwetschke, 2 vols., Halle 1850–1877. urn : nbn: de: s2w-1551

literature

  • Friedrich August Eckstein : The Salfeldschen book printing works in Halle. A letter to Dr. Gustav Schwetschke. Publishing house of the bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1842.
  • Walther Schultze:  Schwetschke, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 440-442.
  • Erich Neuss : Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933
  • Rudolph Garrigue: Gebauer-Schwetschke family . In: Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry . Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin 1903, Volume 2, from page 291
  • Franz Brümmer : German poet lexicon. Volume 2, Krüll, Eichstätt [et al.] 1877.
  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 .
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
  • Eckhart Pilick (Hrsg.): Lexicon of free religious people. Guhl, Rohrbach 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 394.
  2. ^ Peter Kaupp: Fraternity members in the Paulskirche
  3. ^ Cf. Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin 1903, Volume 2, p. 299 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Cf. Erich Neuß: Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933, pp. 149f.
  5. ^ Cf. Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin 1903, Volume 2, p. 299f. ( Digitized version ). Further examples of authors and works can be found at Verlag CA Schwetschke & Sohn
  6. ^ Cf. Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin 1903, Volume 2, p. 300f. ( Digitized version )
  7. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  8. ↑ Cf. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 33, 441.
  9. ^ Roland Hoede: The Paulskirche as a symbol. Freemasons in their work for unity and freedom from 1833 to 1999 . Bayreuth and Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 135f.
  10. ↑ Cf. Bürger.Stiftung.Halle: Communication dated April 6, 2009 ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergerstiftung-halle.de
personal data
SURNAME Schwetschke, Carl Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwetschke, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1881
Place of death Halle (Saale)