Carl Rümpler (company)

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Carl Rümpler in Hanover was a retail bookshop operated in the 19th century with an affiliated newspaper publisher and second-hand bookshop .

history

Trip around the world and three trips by the Royal British Frigate Herald to the Arctic Ocean ... by Berthold Seemann , 2nd edition, published in 1858 by Carl Rümpler

The company was founded in Hanover on Midsummer 's Day 1848, at that time in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover shortly after the beginning of the March Revolution . The publisher of the same name, Carl Rümpler , initially ran a bookstore, but quickly became active as a publisher.

On May 1, 1858, Carl Rümpler parted with his bookstore, which was initially run as Rümpler'sche assortment bookstore , but soon continued under the name of the buyer Theodor Schulze in connection with an art trade and an antiquarian bookshop.

Instead, Rümpler intensified his publishing activities. According to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for 1866 , the Kommerzienrat and publishing bookseller (Ernst) Karl Rümpler had his seat at Windmühlenstraße 7 at the time .

Publications (selection)

In the first 27 years of his company alone, Carl Rümpler published almost 600 works according to his publisher's catalog, which soon made him one of the “first line of sponsors of German science ”. The larger publishing works included, for example

as well as numerous scientific publications by August Nathanael Böhner , Karl Ruß and others.

In 1881 the Rümplersche Verlag was dissolved, according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1885 the company went out in the previous year 1884.

Web links

Commons : Carl Rümpler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: March Revolution 1848/49. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 421f.
  4. a b c d R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , Barsinghausen: Unicum-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308-4 (revised reprint of the original edition from 1880); Pp. 722, 735f .; Preview over google books
  5. Transcription of the address book (excerpt) on the ahnenforschung.net page , last accessed on May 26, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 20.9 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 22.3"  E