Eduard Hölzel

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Eduard Hölzel

Eduard Hölzel (born October 8, 1817 in Prague , † December 21, 1885 in Salzburg ) was a bookseller and publisher . He founded the Ed. Hölzel .

Eduard Hölzel married the twenty-year-old Hedwig Niemann (died 1881) on February 26, 1848, daughter of an imperial-royal captain. He had nine children, but only a few of them survived childhood, including Adolf Hölzel (1853–1934), an important painter. Eduard Hölzel's father, Johann Thomas, was a merchant and iron merchant in Prague, but he preferred painting and provided his friend Alois Senefelder with templates for lithographs .

Eduard Hölzel, who had received his training as a bookseller in Germany, was a versatile and educated man who was very respected in Olomouc , Moravia . He opened a book, art and music store there on October 16, 1844 on the Oberring opposite the town hall. In addition to the bookstore in Olomouc, Hölzel opened branches in Neu-Titschein (1849), Mährisch Ostrau (1857), Mährisch Schönberg (1858), Sternberg (1862), Hungarian Hradisch (1863), as well as in Prerau and Kremsier .

Eduard Hölzel: Book, art and music dealership, Olomouc

In Olomouc he met Blasius Kozenn , who had been teaching at the German Imperial and Royal Higher School from 1858 . Hölzel was able to win this over to design a school atlas that had not been produced in Austria before . In 1861 Eduard Hölzel acquired a lithographic institute in Vienna and built the geographical institute and the Ed. Hölzel up. The first edition of the school atlas was published here in 1861 as the “Geographical School Atlas for the grammar schools, secondary schools and commercial schools of the Austrian monarchy”. It had 31 map sheets and was made using a lithographic printing process. It was to develop into a bestseller in Austrian school atlas cartography and appeared under the (eponymous) name Kozenn-Atlas for more than a hundred years. Since the seventies of the 19th century the company was called "Eduard Hölzel, Kunstverlag, Art Institute for Oil Color Printing and Geographical Institute" and developed into an important publisher in the field of school cartography and textbooks.

Eduard Hölzel was Vice President of the Olomouc Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of the Association of Austrian Booksellers and later also Deputy Chairman of the Vienna Booksellers Committee. According to Venzmer, the Hölzel family did not move to Vienna until 1871 (p. 12). On the letterhead dated October 28, 1876, there are two addresses in Vienna: (a) Druckerei etc. IV., Louisengasse 5 - today Mommsengasse - and (b) Defeat: Kärntner Ring 12. In 1877 the publisher Ed. Hölzel received the gold medal at the art, industry and trade exhibition in Vienna from the trade and trade association in the Sechshaus district (certificate from the Hölzel archive).

Eduard Hölzel wanted his sons Hugo and Adolf to continue running the company after him. Because Hugo was often ailing, he put great hope in Adolf and in 1868 sent him on an internship at Perthes in Gotha . However, because Adolf turned to the artistic profession and also left home (in 1876 he went to the academy in Munich ), the father transferred the company to his son Hugo and his son-in-law Emil Kosmack in 1885.

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SURNAME Hölzel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1885
Place of death Salzburg