Ernst Henrich Berling

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Property of the Berling family in Witzeeze. Ernst Heinrich Berling lived here since 1716. (The house is a new building from 1912.)
Gravestone in the herb garden of St. Peter's Church in Copenhagen

Ernst Henrich Berling (born March 22, 1708 in Alt Krenzlin ; † October 16, 1750 in Copenhagen , born Ernst Heinrich Berling ) was a German-Danish printer , founder and publisher of the Danish daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende .

Life

Berling was born on March 22, 1708. Alt Krenzlin or Lauenburg are named as places of birth.

His mother was Catharina Maria Berling, b. Hennings (* 1677 in Hornbek ). His father, Melchior Christian Berling (born February 9, 1671 in Lauenburg), was a riding forester in Alt Krenzlin near Ludwigslust . They married in 1698 and by 1712 6 children were born in Alt Krenzlin. In 1716 the father inherited the office and property of the farmer bailiff in Witzeeze and also became a riding forester for the office of Lauenburg . The youngest son was born here in 1716.

Ernst Heinrich Berling was apprenticed to his cousin, the Lauenburg printer Albrecht Christian Pfeiffer, from 1723 to 1727. As a journeyman he moved to Stralsund, where he worked for the printer Schindler, and in 1729 to Hamburg to the printer's widow Spieringen. In 1731 he went to Copenhagen and worked in the university print shop of the printer Johan Jørgen Høpfner, who was also from Germany. In 1732 he married the master's stepdaughter, Cecilie Christine Godiche (* 1713).

In 1734 he founded his own printing company, in which u. a. the first Danish edition of Robinson Crusoe was printed.

Berling was appointed court printer in 1747 and the Danish government gave him the only type foundry in Denmark. A year later he was given the right to publish newspapers in German, Danish and French. On January 3, 1749, the first edition of Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender appeared , which was later renamed Berlingske Tidende in honor of the founder and finally (2011) Berlingske .

His wife died in 1750 at the age of only 34; a son succumbed to smallpox that same year. Ernst Henrich Berling probably died of heart failure on October 16, 1750. No note or obituary appeared in the newspaper he founded.

Web links

literature

  • Fritz Juergensen West, William Norvin: Berlingske Tidende. Første Bind 1749-1838. København 1924, p. 15th ff . (Danish, cld.bz [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  • Necessary Supplements to the Great Complete UNIVERSAL LEXICON of all the sciences and arts, which hitherto have been invented and improved by human understanding and wit . tape 3 . Leipzig 1752, Sp. 848 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  • Lauritz Nielsen: EH Berling . In: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon på lex.dk . (Danish, lex.dk [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  • Hans Ferdinand Gerhard: THE MEN'S GENDER OF THE BERLINGS. From the chronicle of an old Lauenburg family. According to the records of District Syndicate Dr. BERLING-Koelleda. In: Lauenburg homeland. Journal of the Heimatbund Herzogtum Lauenburg e. V. 1926, p. 37–39 ( homrz.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  • Henry Hellssen: Foregangsmanden Ernst Henrich Berling . Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1958 (Danish).
  • Bent Blüdnikow: Ernst Henrich Berling and Hans fingeraftryk . In: Berlingske . March 21, 2008 (Danish, berlingske.dk [accessed June 26, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dansk Biografisk Leksikon: EH Berling , accessed on May 20, 2014
  2. ↑ According to the baptismal register of the Picher parish, born in Alt Krenzlin and baptized as Ernst Hinrich Behrling on March 28, 1708. - Information from the Schwerin church registry on June 18, 2020
  3. ↑ Bergedorfer Zeitung: One of the oldest newspapers in the world has its roots in Lauenburg , accessed on May 20, 2014
  4. ↑ Baptismal register of the parish of Picher
  5. ↑ Baptismal register of the parish of Pötrau
  6. ↑ Necessary Supplements to the Large Complete UNIVERSAL LEXICON… Volume 3 , col. 848 .
  7. ↑ Bent Blüdnikow: Ernst Henrich Berling og hans fingeraftryk .
personal data
SURNAME Berling, Ernst Henrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berling, Ernst Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Krenzlin
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1750
Place of death Copenhagen