Christian Gotthold Hauffe
Christian Gotthold Hauffe (born 1725 in Mittweida ; died in March 1799 in Nuremberg ) was a German bookseller, publisher and novelist .
Life
Hauffe was the son of a Saxon excise collector . He did an apprenticeship in bookselling and then worked for several years as an accountant in the Monathische Buchhandlung in Nuremberg. From the beginning of the 1770s he appeared there as a publisher, bookseller and auctioneer. He published novels, edification pamphlets and translations from French, published auction and assortment catalogs as well as the literary intelligence journal Charitable advertisements of new books for all genres of readers with short comments and literary news […] especially with Franconia’s intention (1776). In 1786, however, the company went bankrupt, whereupon Hauffe settled in Fürth , where he continued to operate the book trade, but eventually returned to Nuremberg, where he died in 1799.
In his rather trivial, apparently quickly written novels, Hauffe partly followed the recipe of transferring successful genres such as the gallant novel ( Strange incidents of some merchant's servants in 1769) or the Robinsonade ( Admirable incidents of a watchmaker in 1770) into the bourgeois milieu.
Works
- Strange and extraordinary occurrences of a Cossack notable person. Regensburg 1766. 2nd edition 1780, digitized .
- The moral bear guide. Or the strange life and travels of Peter Langfurth: along with the incidents of other travelers, having spent a long time with him on an uninhabited island. Blankenburg 1768, digitized .
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Passetems on long winter evenings in pleasant and time-reducing stories. 2 vols.Blankenburg 1768.
- First part. Nowhere more foolish than in the world, but nothing of no-nonsense - this proves the story of a prince. Amst-Rathes to ***. Digitized .
- Second part. The blind happiness or something of no danger in the very special incidents of a noble court master and his lordship: in addition to the incidents of his two sisters, designed and executed by himself. Digitized .
- Strange incidents from some of the clerks. Regensburg 1769.
- The upside-down world that speaks differently as it thinks and thinks differently as it speaks, in the life of a young man, given out from personal experience. Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 1769, digitized .
- The wonderful incidents of a Briton, or the deceitful appearance of many world citizens and sweet gentlemen. Regensburg 1769, digitized .
- Admirable incidents of a watchmaker. Regensburg 1770.
- Strange incidents of a shepherd boy. Regensburg 1772.
- Life and strange incidents of an aristocratic tenant daughter who, after having survived various accidents and accidents on water and on land, enriched with many treasures, again arrived in London, described by yourself. Regensburg 1776, digitized .
- The happy transformation or incident of the young recluse, naturally transformed from an old and worn-out hermit, along with the story of her friend. Regensburg 1778, digitized .
- My travels on foot, or observations about human weaknesses. Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 1789, digitized .
literature
- Ernst Weber: Hauffe, Christian Gotthold. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 5, p. 70 f.
- Ernst Weber, Christine Mithal: German original novels between 1680 and 1780. A bibliography […]. Berlin 1983.
- Ernst Weber: Range catalogs of the 18th century as sources of literature and book trade history. In: Reinhard Wittmann (ed.): Book catalogs as book historical sources [...]. Wiesbaden 1984.
- Georg Andreas Will : Nuremberg scholarly lexicon. Vol. 6. Nuremberg 1805, sv
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Gotthold Hauffe in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sometimes wrongly Gottfried and Gottlieb instead of Gotthold. See Will: Nürnbergisches Schehrten-Lexicon. Vol. 6. Nuremberg 1805.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauffe, Christian Gotthold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacobine W. (pseudonym); Jacobine W *** (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller, publisher and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mittweida |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1799 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |