Emil Hochdanz (publisher)

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Emil Hochdanz (born February 2, 1816 in Nohra near Weimar ; died February 20, 1885 in Stuttgart ) was a German lithographer and publisher .

Live and act

Emil Hochdanz completed an apprenticeship in lithography in Weimar and then worked in the lithographic institute of Bernhard Friedrich Voigt . At the end of the 1830s, Hochdanz moved to the Lithographic Artistic Art Institute of Johannes Velten (1784–1864) in Karlsruhe and in the early 1940s to the lithographic institute Pobuda & Rees in Stuttgart.

His work and his talent for caricatures caught the attention of the publisher Carl Hoffmann (1802–1883), who employed Hochdanz for several years. In 1844 Hoffmann, together with Mathilde Courtin, initiated the establishment of the "Allgemeine Muster-Zeitung", with their pattern sheets as a model for many other illustrated fashion newspapers that pushed onto the market in the second half of the 19th century. For the publication of this sheet, Hochdanz and his friend Johann Christoph Engelhorn (1818–1890) founded a lithographic establishment and a publishing company under the name Engelhorn & Hochdanz, which existed until 1860. After the company was dissolved, Hochdanz took over the lithographic establishment on its own and continued to run the sample newspaper for a few years until he handed it over to the Metzler bookstore .

For many years his company provided excellent services in the field of card engraving and lithographic color printing for a wide variety of clients, which gave his company an excellent reputation. When Emil Hochdanz died in 1885 at the age of 69, his eldest son Carl, who had been with his father's company since 1876, took over the business. The technical manager was initially Paul Wagner, later Hermann Friese, under whose management the Emil Hochdanz company was able to maintain its reputation even after the founder's death. In 1899 Hermann Friese and Walther Hopf bought the company, which lasted until the early 1920s.

literature

  • Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 52 (1885), No. 63 of March 18, 1885, p. 1297 (Nekrolog).
  • Schmidt, Rudolf: German booksellers. German book printer . Volume 3. Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, pp. 476-477.
  • Hopf, Emil: Book and stone printing, Emil Hochdanz Publishing House, Stuttgart . Dedicated to your business friends on the occasion of their 75th birthday. Anniversary, Stuttgart 1919.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A request from May 16, 1844 for inclusion in the Württemberg citizenship law names Nohra as the place of birth "of the lithographer Magnus Emil Koch, called Hochdanz" (State Archives Ludwigsburg, inventory E 173 III, Bü 152)
  2. ↑ Example of a (posthumous) portrait: Ludwig Friedrich Stockmayer (1779–1837), Major General, Brigadier General of the 1st Infantry Brigade in uniform, feather hat with medal, half-profile portrait: https: //tobias-bild.uni-tuebingen. de / detail / 61608
  3. ↑ General sample newspaper. Album for female work and fashions 1.1884 - 22.1865
personal data
SURNAME Hochdanz, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Nohra near Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1885
Place of death Stuttgart