Eberhard Berenberg

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Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich Berenberg (born June 24, 1776 in Lauenburg , † March 23, 1844 in Hanover ) was a German printer , owner of the Berenberg printing house and publisher, for example, of the state and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Born in 1776 at the time of the Duchy of Lauenburg as the son of the court printer Johann Georg Berenberg , who worked in a semi-detached house on Hohlerweg in Lauenburg, and his wife from his first marriage, Eberhard, who was still underage, was the heir to the house of the Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei (the former "Offizin)" as early as 1785 been declared. After his father's death in 1797 Eberhard Berenberg was indeed at the age of 25 years in 1801 mature , but could his inheritance because of the so-called " French period " does not compete, while the confiscated the printing and berenbergsche factor Johann Friedrich Freystatzky especially forms for the French military had to print. In order to earn a living , Berenberg, who was "obviously banned from professions ," traded in the - likewise unauthorized - sale of shoes in 1810. Only after the reorganization of continental Europe after the Congress of Vienna did Eberhard Berenberg inherit his inheritance in 1816, but in 1819 he sold his semi-detached house to “Major Meyer” and moved the former “Pfeiffer-Berenbergsche Druckerei” , which had been active on Hohlerweg in Lauenburg for 117 years, to Artlenburg im Kingdom of Hanover.

In the following year, 1820, Berenberg relocated his printing works from Artlenburg to Nienburg and, after a few years, to Hanover in 1824 due to "tensions with the Lüneburger Sternverlag " . Apparently he was temporarily followed by the Lauenburg book printer journeyman Wilhelm Rohwerder , who - when he became prosperous - bought one of the Lauenburg "four houses" in 1831.

In 1836 the publisher's business and his Berenberg printing house were housed in what was then Georgstrasse 19 . On April 24, 1838, Berenberg appointed Johann Friedrich Asseburg as a factor in his printing company. When in 1840 the Berenbergsche Buchdruckerei in Hanover celebrated the anniversary of the book printing invention 400 years earlier by Johannes Gutenberg and joined the Hanoverian book printers "Allgemeine Sparkasse" founded for the occasion, Berenberg's "assistants" wrote poetry to the printer and The publisher wrote a longer poem from which it emerges, among other things, that Berenberg's "house" had apparently suffered fire damage and that Berenberg's wife had given birth to at least one son, to whom the assistants swore their loyalty as a potential successor to Eberhard Berenberg.

Eberhard Berenberg died in the spring of 1844. His grave slab can be found in the garden cemetery . According to the city of Hanover's address book from 1849, his widow Ida Berenberg still lived in Theaterstrasse 3 at the time . The printing and publishing house of the Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei was located in 1865 at Theaterplatz 1 in Hanover.

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  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Gerrit Vogt: Gravestones at the garden cemetery in Hanover , a copy of the gravestone etc. on the website hans-gerrit.de , last accessed on February 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b Compare, for example, the inside title of the state and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1836 ; Digitization of the Bavarian State Library via Google books
  4. ^ A b Wichmann von Meding : Handwerkergemeinde Hohlerweg. Important buildings and businesses , in this case: City without land on the river. 800 years of the European small town of Lauenburg , Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55963-5 and ISBN 3-631-55963-1 , pp. 245-259; here especially p. 248f .; online through google books
  5. ^ Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (ed.): Eberhard [Friedrich Justus Heinrich] Berenberg (see literature); Digitized
  6. ^ Wilhelm Schröder : Album of the Gutenberg Festival in Hanover in 1840 , ed. by the Jänicke brothers, Hanover: Hahn, 1840, v. a. P. 15, 84ff .; Digitized
  7. ↑ Compare the inside title of the Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1865 ; Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Berenberg, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berenberg, Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher, owner of the Berenberg printing house
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1844
Place of death Hanover