Friedrich Andreas Perthes
Friedrich Andreas Perthes (also FA Perthes) was a German publisher based in Gotha, Thuringia . The publisher's name is not derived from an individual of this name, but from the creation of the merger of the two publishers of Friedrich Christoph Perthes (1772–1843) and Andreas Hansa Traugott Perthes (1813–1890).
history
The company was the legal successor to the publishing house founded by Friedrich Christoph Perthes under his name in Gotha in 1822 , while the Perthes & Besser bookstore, which he also founded in Hamburg in 1796, went its own way under his partner Johann Heinrich Besser . The publishing house was based in Gotha, but operated as "Friedrich Perthes in Hamburg".
In order to better prepare for the business transfer, the youngest son Andreas Hansa Traugott Perthes ( born in Kiel ), with the support of his father, founded his own publishing house on January 1, 1840 in Gotha under the company Friedrich & Andreas Perthes , Hamburg and Gotha. After the death of Friedrich Christoph Perthes (1843 in Gotha), he took over the management of both publishing houses on behalf of the heirs until they were merged on January 1, 1854 under the company Friedrich Andreas Perthes , based in Gotha. On July 1, 1874, he handed it over to his son Emil Friedrich Matthias Perthes while retaining this name . Emil Perthes added a book printing company with 5 presses, stereotype , steel and copper gravure printing , in which 62 people were employed.
On July 1, 1889 (according to other information on June 28, 1890) the company was converted into a stock corporation, Emil Perthes left the publishing house in 1890. Since 1903 the publishing house operated as Friedrich Andreas Perthes AG , Gotha and Stuttgart . In 1937 the publishing house was finally dissolved.
Publishing program
The focus of the publishing program in Gotha was on history, theology, textbooks and school books, as well as children's and young people's books as well as edification literature and fiction .
Important periodicals and compilations of the publisher were:
- History of the European states or general history of states , edited by Arnold Heeren , Friedrich August Ukert , Wilhelm von Giesebrecht and Karl Lamprecht (from 1829, over 100 volumes),
- Encyclopedia of Modern History , by Wilhelm Herbst (3 volumes),
- Ancient history manuals (three series),
- New Philological Review (magazine),
- German history sheets , edited by Armin Tille (since 1899),
- German Reichstag files ,
- Theological studies and reviews , edited by Carl Christian Ullmann and Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit (from 1828),
- Journal of Canon Law , co-founded and edited by Richard Wilhelm Dove (published by FA Perthes from 1877)
- Library of theological classics (54 volumes), published from 1890 to 1894,
- Reference library of practical theology , edited by Karl Friedrich Zimmer (textbook series)
- Perthes' Hand Lexicon for Protestant Theology (3 volumes)
- Hand dictionary for Protestant theologians
- Theological auxiliary dictionary
- Nunciature reports from Germany
- Bibliotheca Gothana (school editions of Greek and Latin classics)
- Perthes' school editions of English and French writers
- Classic German Seals (School Editions)
In the field of history, philology and philosophy, the publishing program also included writings by Wilhelm Arnold (German history), Johann Baumann (on philosophy), Heinrich Düntzer , Joseph Hillebrand (German national literature ), Friedrich Max Müller , Theodor Kolde , Gneomar Ernst von Natzmer .
In the field of theology, works by Hermann Cremer (Biblical-theological dictionary of New Testament Graecity), Albert Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer (church songs dictionary and others), Gustav Warneck , Clemens Theodor Perthes (a son of Friedrich Perthes and son-in-law of Matthias Claudius), Theodor Weber have appeared .
In the area of fiction, poetry, edification literature as well as children's and youth writings, the following can be named: Johanna Spyri ( "Heidi" and other children's stories), Johann Friedrich Starck , Gerhard von Amyntor , Victor Blüthgen , a new edition of the works of Matthias Claudius (Claudius' Urian's message of the New Enlightenment was the first object laid by Friedrich Perthes in Hamburg in 1797), Georg Christian Dieffenbach , Adda von Liliencron , Anton Ohorn , Maria Rebe , Otto Ritschl , Adelheid von Rothenburg , Bernhardine Schulze-Schmidt , Lilly Willigerod , Emma Wuttke-Biller and the fables by Hey and Speckter, which have appeared in many editions .
literature
- Publishing catalog of Friedrich Andreas Perthes Aktiengesellschaft in Gotha, (verified for 1887 and 1906).
- Clemens Theodor Perthes: Friedrich Perthes life after his written and oral communications . 3 vols., FA Perthes, Gotha 1848–1855, digitized vol. 1/2 in the Google book search, vol. 3 in the Google book search
- Dirk Moldenhauer: History as a commodity. The publisher FC Perthes (1772-1843) pioneered modern historiography . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2008 ISBN 3-412-12706-X (dissertation)