Carl Hermann Hemmerde

Carl Hermann Hemmerde (born November 23, 1708 near Magdeburg , † May 7, 1782 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German publisher .

Live and act

Hemmerde initially worked as an assistant in Johann Georg Klemm's publishing bookstore . After his death he married Klemm's daughter on June 4, 1737 and took over his publishing bookstore, which he renamed Hemmerde . At the end of 1781, Carl August Schwetschke entered the bookstore as a factor through the agency of the Leipzig publisher Philipp Erasmus Reich . Half a year later, on May 7th, 1782, Hemmerde died. The publishing house was run by his second wife along with her factor for the next six years. From 1788 Schwetschke was then a partner; the publishing bookstore now operated under the name Hemmerde & Schwetschke .

Hemmerde's achievement was the development of a large publishing program with important authors and works, among which Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's Messiah stood out. This laid the foundation for the reputation of the CA Schwetschke & Sohn publishing house . In total, Hemmerde published around 750 titles in the years 1737 to 1782, whereby, in addition to some works of aesthetics, mainly humanities, natural sciences and medical books were published, e.g. B. Works by theologians Johann Jacob Rambach and Johann Salomo Semler , the physician Johann Gottlob Krüger , the natural scientist Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and the legal scholars Christoph Weidlich and Johann Friedrich Eisenhart .

literature

Hans-Joachim Kertscher : Halle publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 978-3-929887-26-6 .
Erich Neuss : Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933.

Web links

Literature by and about Carl Hermann Hemmerde in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Carl Hermann Hemmerde in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 20ff., 400 mw.
↑ See Erich Neuss: Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933, pp. 94, 107; Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Halle publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 22-25 with additional information. Further examples of important works and authors can be found in the Wikipedia article Verlag CA Schwetschke & Sohn .

personal data
SURNAME	Hemmerde, Carl Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hemmerde, Karl Hermann; Inconnu, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 7, 1782
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 20ff., 400 mw.

[2] See Erich Neuss: Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933, pp. 94, 107; Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Halle publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 22-25 with additional information. Further examples of important works and authors can be found in the Wikipedia article Verlag CA Schwetschke & Sohn .