Franz Sandböck

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Franz Sandböck (1849)

Franz Sandböck , also Franz Sandbök (born September 24, 1817 in Prambachkirchen , † July 28, 1891 in Wels ) was an Austrian bookseller and publisher .

Life

Franz Sandböck was born in 1817 as the son of Gmundener k.k. Salt wear office administrator Franz Xaver Sandböck (1791-1859) and Maria Franziska geb. Schiffmann (1787–1863) was born in Baumgarten, municipality of Prambachkirchen, the oldest of four children together. In 1834 he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller with the later mayor of Linz , Vinzenz Fink, in Linz and stayed with Fink after completing his apprenticeship. In 1846 Sandböck acquired the Greis'sche bookstore in Steyr . On January 13, 1847, he married Fink's niece Maria Stehle (1824–1852), daughter of the official of the Innerberg main trade union in St. Gallen, Johann Stehle and Theresia geb. Lindemayr. In 1849 the Sandböck couple bought the house at Stadtplatz 40 (today: Stadtplatz 33 ) in Steyr from Maria Stehle's siblings . On October 1st, 1851, Sandböck opened the first lending library in Steyr and founded a book and music publisher . His young wife died on July 20, 1852, leaving Franz Sandböck with their two children, Maria and Franziska.

Due to his successful book and paper trade, Sandböck was appointed commercial and changing court assessor in Steyr in 1856 and elected to the Steyr municipal council in 1857 .

On July 6, 1869, Sandböck's two daughters married in a double wedding. Maria married the engineer of the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Bahn, Johann Neustifter. Her sister Franziska (* December 27, 1850 in Steyr, † October 27, 1894 in Wels) married the Wels cloth merchant Leopold Gruber .

Sandböck sold the Sandböksche Buchhandlung to his former apprentice Viktor Stigler in 1869 . In 1872 he moved to Wels and took over a newly founded agency of the industrial and commercial bank, which however fell victim to the stock market crash of May 1873 and went bankrupt in July 1873.

Sandböck spent his old age in Wels and is buried in the crypt of the Gruber family at the Wels city cemetery.

The Sandböksche Buchhandlung celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1977 and continued to exist until around 1980.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Franz Sandböck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buildings: Stadtplatz 33. In: steyr.at. Retrieved September 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 1873. In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. Retrieved September 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Anniversary publication 150 years of Sandbök'sche Buchhandlung in Steyr 1827 - 1977 by Hermann Goldbacher, printed by the Steyr association printing company, 12 pages; accessed on May 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sandböck, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sandbök, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian bookseller and publisher in Steyr
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Prambachkirchen
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1891
Place of death catfish