Ferdinand Enke

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Ferdinand Ernst Jakob Enke (born October 8, 1810 in Erlangen ; † December 8, 1869 there ) was a German publisher and bookseller. In 1837 he founded Ferdinand Enke Verlag in Erlangen , which became one of the most important scientific publishers in Germany.

Enke attended the Dithmarschen Institute in Nuremberg and did an apprenticeship at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen . He was interested in medicine, learned ancient languages ​​and, with the money he saved, made up his Abitur at a humanistic grammar school alongside his job. He was briefly in his parents' business in Erlangen, then was managing director at Kesselring in Hildburghausen , in 1833 in the bookstore von Bon in Königsberg , then in the bookstore von Rieger in Augsburg and in the bookstore von Heubner in Vienna , where he also worked in painting and Drawing trained.

Enke took over his father's bookstore in Erlangen in 1837 and began his publishing activities, with which he later specialized in natural sciences, medicine, law and political science. The father Ernst Enke (1782–1846) also had a publisher ( Palm and Enke Verlag ), but the brother Adolph Enke took over. Ernst Enke had married the daughter of the Erlangen university bookseller and author Johann Jakob Palm (1750-1826) and in 1816 took over the business of his father-in-law (bookstore Palm and Enke).

A first success was the publication of Canstatt’s special pathology and therapy from 1847 and soon afterwards the annual reports on the progress of the entire medicine in all countries (publisher Carl Friedrich Canstatt, Gottfried Eisenmann ). Medical authors in the publishing house were among other things Rudolf Virchow , Franz von Pitha and Theodor Billroth . In the legal field, the courtroom magazine (founded by Ludwig von Jagemann ) [1805-1853] followed in 1849 , the yearbooks of German jurisprudence and legislation in 1855 (publisher Hermann Theodor Schletter ) and in 1858 the magazine for all commercial law and business law (publisher Levin Goldschmidt ) . In 1852 the journal Gartenflora was founded in the publishing house (editor Eduard August von Regel ) and many other scientific authors followed. In the 20th century the publisher was known for its geological focus (but also chemistry, medicine, sociology).

In 1868 he sold his bookstore to Theodor Krische (1840-1889), who continued it under his own name. Enke then concentrated on the publisher. A little later, however, Ferdinand Enke died of a serious chronic illness. The publishing house management was initially taken over by the bookseller Paul Wagner, who also belonged to the publishing house as an authorized signatory, who handed it over to Enke's son Alfred Enke (1852–1937) in 1874 . This moved the headquarters to Stuttgart, where the publishing industry was concentrated in southern Germany at that time. The descendants continued the tradition as a science publisher, including the decisions of the Reich Higher Commercial Court in 25 volumes (1871 to 1880) and the journal Deutsche Chirurgie (editors Theodor Billroth, Albert Lücke ). The journal for obstetrics and gynecology , the yearbook of practical medicine , the archive for paediatrics and, in the legal field, the journal for comparative jurisprudence , the Centralblatt for jurisprudence , the reference library of public law and the legal reference library were also published . At the end of the 19th century, among other things, the textbook on international private and criminal law by Carl Ludwig von Bar and in 1886 the Psychopathia sexualis by Richard von Krafft-Ebing , the Handbuch der Chemischen Technologie (publisher Otto Dammer ), the Handbuch der Obstetrilfe ( Editor Peter Müller ), the Handbuch der Frauenkrankheiten (editors Theodor Billroth, Albert Lücke), the textbook of geology by Emanuel Kayser , the textbook of physics by Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser , the manual of electrical engineering by Erasmus Kittler and works by Carl that were well sold at the time Heinrich Stratz on women.

The publishing house only came to Thieme publishing group in 1971 (mostly in 1975) (incorporated into MVS Medizinverlage Stuttgart).

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  1. ↑ Founded in 1872 as the German journal for surgery , from 1879 German surgery
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SURNAME Enke, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enke, Ferdinand Ernst Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1810
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DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1869
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