Eduard Gottlieb Amthor

The Liebigsche Gartenhaus in Gera, built in 1740, housed the commercial college founded by Eduard Amthor from 1861 to 1925

Eduard Gottlieb Amthor (born July 19, 1820 in Themar , † July 3, 1884 in Gera ) was a German school director, publisher, bookseller and writer.

Life

Amthor studied theology and oriental studies at the University of Leipzig . After working as a librarian for some time and traveling to England and France, he founded a commercial school in Hildburghausen in 1849 , which moved to Gera in 1854. In 1866, Amthor founded a publishing house there which, in addition to various periodicals, also published school atlases and travel literature , some of which he wrote himself . In his extensive literary estate there are also translations, mainly from English.

In honor of the author of alpine literature, the chicken game in the Zillertal Alps bears the alternative name Amthorspitze . In Gera, Amthorstrasse , the Amthordübergang, has been carrying the vocational school “Dr. Eduard Amthor ” and a Gera tram of the type NGT8G (car number 206) took his name. Amthorstrasse was named after him in the Innsbruck district of Pradl in 1905 .

literature

Karl Friedrich Pfau : Amthor, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 774 f.
Hans Lülfing : Amthor, Eduard Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 264 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Works by and about Eduard Gottlieb Amthor in the German Digital Library
Der Alpenfreund: Monthly booklets for the dissemination of alpine studies among young and old 1876, published by Dr. Eduard Amthor

Individual evidence

↑ Patrick Weisheit: Gera Business School gets names. November 26, 2015, accessed November 26, 2015 .
↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 116 .

personal data
SURNAME	Amthor, Eduard Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German school director, publisher, bookseller and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Themar
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1884
Place of death	Gera

[1] Patrick Weisheit: Gera Business School gets names. November 26, 2015, accessed November 26, 2015 .

[2] Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 116 .