Ferdinand Dümmler

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Ferdinand Dümmler (born October 23, 1777 in Battgendorf near Kölleda , † March 15, 1846 ) was a German bookseller and publisher .

Life

Ferdinand Dümmler, son of a preacher, did an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig from 1792 . After its end, in 1798 he became an employee in the Berlin branch of the Lange'schen Verlagbuchhandlung , where he met Georg Andreas Reimer and made him a friend. In 1804 he became managing director and silent partner at the Dieterich'schen publishing bookstore in Göttingen . As a volunteer in the Lützow Freikorps , he was captured during the battle near Kitzen in June 1813, interned in Fenestrelle and Sisteron , and was only released in April 1814.

On January 1, 1815, he acquired the publishing business founded by Julius Eduard Hitzig in 1808 and set it up under the name “Ferd. Dümmlersche Verlagbuchhandlung ”continues. In the same year he married Caroline Friederike Reinhardt, sister of the wife of his friend Georg Andreas Reimer. He had seven children with her, including the later historian Ernst Ludwig Dümmler . Dümmler's publishing activity was varied. For example, in 1819 he published the life views of the cat Murr from ETA Hoffmann , although Dümmler, as Hoffmann notes in the foreword, "did not have a hangover among his authors" until then. To a certain extent, the publishing house specialized in comparative linguistics and published the writings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences on commission.

From 1821 Ferdinand Dümmler was first elected deputy city councilor , then repeatedly elected city councilor of the Berlin city council. From 1842 until his death on March 15, 1846 he was an unpaid city councilor.

The location of the publishing house changed in 1916 with Consul Antonio Lehmann (1871-1941) from Berlin to Bonn , where the company in Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag was renamed, and (from 1949 with a publisher's signature from Heinrich Hussmann ) until it was sold to the Cologne-based Stam-Verlag (1999) it was located in Kaiserstraße.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, 1909, p. 267
  2. ^ ETA Hoffmann : Life views of the cat Murr . Volume 1. Dümmler, Berlin 1820 [recte 1819], p. IV ( online ).
  3. ^ Adalbert Brauer:  Lehmann, Antonio. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 74 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ bonn.de: corporate estate of Dümmler-Verlag (accessed on March 11, 2015)

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SURNAME Dümmler, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Battgendorf near Kölleda
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1846