Charles-Joseph Panckoucke
Charles Joseph Panckoucke (born November 26, 1736 in Lille , † December 19, 1798 ) was a French writer and publisher . He was best known as the publisher of the Encyclopédie méthodique and as the founder of the newspaper Le Moniteur universel . From 1788 he also published the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre , Louis Pierre Vieillot and Jean Guillaume Bruguière .
Life
Charles Joseph Panckoucke belongs to a French family of printers and booksellers. His father André Joseph Panckoucke (1700–1753) was also a publisher, bookseller and writer. His mother was Antoinette Gandouin (* 1710), the parents married in 1730 and had two children, Amélie Panckoucke (1750-1830) and her older brother Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
After an apprenticeship with the founding publisher of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers André-François Le Breton , Panckoucke settled in Paris in 1762. In 1766 he married Thérèse Couret de Villeneuve (approx. 1750-1823), they had three children: Antoinette Pauline Panckoucke (1769-1840), Thérèse Charlotte Panckoucke (1775-1838) and Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844).
From 1768 Panckoucke was the official bookseller of the Royal Printing House and the Academy of Sciences, libraire-éditeur officiel de l'Imprimerie royale et de l'Académie royale des sciences . He was now an important figure in the French book trade and publishing industry.
Panckoucke wrote a Grammaire raisonnée (Paris 1795) and translated Tasso and Ariost . He published the Mercure de France , as well as works by Buffon , Laharpes Reisen, the great French vocabulaire , the repertoire universel de jurisprudence and the Encyclopédie méthodique , a thematically organized successor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiersédie Encyclopédie for short , by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert . On December 16, 1768, together with the bookseller Jean Dessaint and the paper manufacturer Chauchat, he acquired the rights for further and future editions of the Encyclopédie and the panel volumes.
This extensive work was published by 1832. The edition was continued after the death of Panckoucke by his daughter Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse , she was the widow of his partner Henri Agasse (1752-1813).
In November 1789 he founded the newspaper Le Moniteur universel , which is still partly owned by the Panckoucke family.
Panckoucke's sister Amélie Suard (1750-1830) was a writer and hostess of a literary salon , she was married to Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard . His son Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844) was also a writer and publisher.
literature
- Robert Darton: Shining business. The Dissemination of Diderot's Encyclopédie. Or: How do you sell knowledge at a profit? , Translated from the English and French by Horst Günther, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8031-3568-0 (English original title The business of enlightenment: a publishing history of the Encyclopédie , Cambridge 1979).
- David I. Kulstein: The Ideas of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Publisher of the Moniteur Universel , on the French Revolution , in: French Historical Studies 4, 3 (1966), pp. 304-319.
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christophe Rey: Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, artisan de l'encyclopédisme français. Université de Provence (Equipe DELIC) (PDF; 157 kB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Panckoucke, Charles-Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Panckoucke, Charles Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1798 |