Eduard Bloch (publisher)

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Eduard Bloch (born August 20, 1831 in Berlin ; † September 30, 1895 there ) was a German theater bookseller and author .

In 1857 Bloch took over the theater publisher "Leopold Lassar's Buchhandlung", founded in 1845. Due to the specialization of his publishing and assortment bookstore, he is considered the founder of the first German special publisher for theater literature. It was emphasized in his piece catalogs that they contained a detailed overview of the piece, which made it much easier for customers to choose the pieces. In 1887 he handed over the management of his publishing house to his son Ludwig (1859–1939), who renamed the publishing house “Eduard Bloch”. The publishing house remained in family ownership until Edward's grandson Peter Bloch was forced to sell because of the family's Jewish origins.

Eduard Bloch also worked as an author and translator himself. He arranged several comedies and pranks from French and Italian for the German stage and wrote antics and pranks himself such as Er hat den Spleen (1860), Spiele nicht mit Schießgewehr (1860) or His Uncle and Her Aunt (1864).

The Bloch theater collection founded by him is now part of the Berlin State Library .

literature

  • Peter Bloch: Between hope and resignation. As CDU politician in Brandenburg 1945–1950 . Cologne 1986.
  • Bloch, Eduard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 95-98.
  • Karl Friedrich Pfau : Biographical Lexicon of the German Book Trade of the Present. Taking into account the most outstanding representatives of the book trade of the old days and abroad . Leipzig 1890.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Cernãuţi 1925
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Biographical directory. A representative cross-section. Berlin 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloch, Ludwig , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1895
Place of death Berlin