Eduard Gaebler

Eduard Gaebler, 1909

Signature Yours faithfully Ed. Gaebler from January 31, 1880.

Eduard Gaebler , actually Friedrich Eduard Gäbler (born January 22, 1842 in Pegau , † November 8, 1911 in Rüssen ) was a German engraver , lithographer , cartographer and publisher .

Life

Grave site of Eduard Gaebler in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Eduard Gaebler, the eldest son of the ten children of a butcher from Pegau in Saxony , turned to the graphic trade after attending the Progymnasium. Due to his versatile artistic talent, Gaebler was able to undergo extensive training as a steel and copper engraver at Albert Henry Payne's art institute in Leipzig . He specialized in cartography and map and illustration printing , for which he and his brother Robert Gaebler developed a new reproduction method suitable for high-speed letterpress printing , the pantatype based on zincography. He has received several awards for this at world exhibitions .

In 1866 he set up his own institute for geographic and calligraphic copper and steel engraving in Leipzig. He initially gave up on this in order to set up and manage the geographic-artistic institute of George Westermann's publishing house from 1874 to 1879, also in Leipzig . When George Westermann died in 1879, Gaebler took over the Leipzig branch. In the general publishing catalog of the German book trade, the founding date for Eduard Gaebler's Geographical Institute is given as December 5, 1879. Eduard Gaebler established his reputation as an accomplished cartographer with his independent geographic and lithographic art establishment, which he expanded to include a printing company. This is where the drafts and final drawings for the school atlases for higher education institutions were created between 1880 and 1894 , which he edited and published together with Carl Diercke on behalf of Westermann-Verlag . His other works included a sky atlas, a city atlas of the German Empire, a large handheld atlas, travel and hiking maps, car and bicycle maps, numerous school atlas editions and an extensive school wall map program.

After his death, the company remained in family ownership. In 1935 the publisher had to file for bankruptcy and was taken over by the Deutsche Zentraldruckerei AG in 1941. It was no longer possible to resume operations after 1945.

Publications

• Kontor and Bureau wall map of the German Empire: also an overview map for cyclists, Leipzig, 1900
• Eduard Gaebler's systematic school atlas: for each country and each province in a special edition , Leipzig: Lang, 1904
• Gaebler's little hand atlas. Over all parts of the world. In 114 main and secondary maps on 80 plates. With an alphabetical directory of names. With regional studies by Dr. R. Buschick , Leipzig, 1933

literature

• Edmund Oppermann: Eduard Gaebler. For his golden career anniversary. In: Geographischer Anzeiger Heft 9 (1909) pp. 253-256
• Petra Gäbler: Eduard Gaebler (1842–1911), the publisher and his atlases. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 37 (2008) pp. 3–20 full text
• Friedrich Eduard Gaebler: a famous cartographer in Leipzig and Kleinstorkwitz. In: Heimatblätter des Bornaer Land (2006), 12, pp. 42–50