Christoph Marquard Ed

Christoph Marquard Ed (born January 20, 1809 in Rendsburg ; † April 9, 1885 in Lübeck ) was a printer, publisher, writer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

After his apprenticeship as a printer at the Meißner printing company in Hamburg , he worked as a correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine and the Cottaische Morgenblätter . He also wrote novellas under the pseudonym Stallknecht .

He was friends with the Hamburg literary greats Karl Gutzkow , Amalia Schoppe and Friedrich Hebbel .

Christoph Marquard Ed was a descendant of the Edmann family, who had fled Sweden . He was a son of Karl Ed and Cristine Auguste nee Wittkoff. The family lived in Altona and when Christoph was 6 years old, his father died. In 1825 he began an apprenticeship as a printer in Hamburg and worked as such until 1842. In 1842 he bought the printing works and the license of the Bergedorfer Boten (from 1843 Bergedorfer Wochenblatt and Eisenbahn-Zeitung ) and moved to Bergedorf . Ed was a co-founder of the Bergedorf Citizens' Association and its first chairman.

In 1835 he had married Friederike Amalie Pauline Seltzam, with whom he had four daughters, a. a. the writer Ida Boy-Ed . In 1865 the family and the newspaper moved to Lübeck. He made extensive trips to Egypt and reported about it in his newspaper under his pseudonym.

In 1880 he became a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Lübeck and the German Progressive Party in a by-election for the resigned MP Karl Peter Klügmann . As early as 1881 he left the Reichstag.

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SURNAME	Ed, Christoph Marquard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German printer, publisher, writer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1885
Place of death	Lübeck