Emil Hirsch (antiquarian)

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Emil Hirsch (born March 14, 1866 in Mergentheim ; died July 27, 1954 in New York ) was a German book antiquarian .

Life

When he was 15, Emil Hirsch trained as a bookseller with Ludwig Rosenthal in Munich . He then went to see Oscar Gerschel in Stuttgart , Zahn & Jaensch in Dresden and back to Munich as a partner of Gottlob Hess. In 1897 he opened his own antiquarian bookstore there, which he later specialized in German literature and luxury prints. In 1907 he was a founding member of the Society of Munich Bibliophiles . Hirsch cultivated contacts with artists and writers, he encouraged Hans von Weber in his Hundertdrucke project and supported the bibliophile Bremen press , Karl Wolfskehl , Wilhelm Trübner and Franz Marc were his friends.

Hirsch has held auctions since 1916, at which books from the Arthur Rümann , Karl Voll , Georg Hirth , Sayn-Wittgenstein and Piloty collections were auctioned.

His daughter Maria Hirsch married the art historian Hellmuth Wallach in 1929 , who entered the business. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Hirsch had to give up his business in 1935. He managed to emigrate to the USA in 1938 with a large part of his book treasures . There he worked in the second -hand bookshop in New York on Madison Avenue that was run by Walter Schatzki and his son-in-law, who had fled in 1937 . Wallach ran the business in New York until 1970 and then moved to Bern .

Hirsch's own book collection was auctioned by Menno Hertzberger in Amsterdam in 1957 .

literature

  • Arthur Rümann : The three shops. Father Hirsch on his 60th birthday . Munich 1926
  • Hans Lamm : From Jews in Munich. A memorial book . Ner-Tamid, Munich 1959, p. 231.
  • Fritz Homeyer : German Jews as Bibliophiles and Antiquaries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1963, p. 34 f., 140.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . KG Saur, Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 153.
  • Ernst Fischer : Publishers, booksellers & antiquarians from Germany and Austria who emigrated after 1933 . Association of German Antiquaries, Elbingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-98122232-6 , p.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 724.
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Mergentheim
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1954
Place of death New York City