Friedrich Bernhard Culemann

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Friedrich Bernhard Culemann (born March 21, 1770 in Königslutter , † January 22, 1845 in Hanover ) was a German bookseller and printer , company founder and publisher.

Life

family

Friedrich Bernhard Culemann was the father of the entrepreneur Friedrich Culemann . In 1810 he married Stephie Eleonore Taberger , daughter of the Hanoverian tin caster Friedrich Ludwig Arnold Taberger . One of his brothers was the cartographer Friedrich Wilhelm Culemann .

Career

Friedrich Bernhard Culemann completed an apprenticeship in Braunschweig in the school bookshop of the school councilor Johann Heinrich Campe . At the age of barely 30, in 1799, Culemann founded a publishing house with a printing company in his hometown of Königslutter . In 1801 he also acquired a bookstore in Braunschweig and, after the Braunschweig bookstore was closed, was employed in Hanover in 1803 at the bookstore Gebr. Hahn , where he remained active until 1815.

In addition, during the so-called French era in 1806 , Culemann set up another print shop in Hameln . In 1809 he moved his first company from Königslutter to Hanover. After his marriage in 1810, he sold it to Carl Friedrich Cuis in 1814 .

Instead, Culemann finally founded his Culemann'sche Buchdruckerei (later Culemannsche Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt ) in 1815 , through which he wrote 10,000 Bibles on behalf of Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Elder , then the Monumenta Germaniae Historica with the publisher Georg Heinrich Pertz , and finally the Hannoversche Zeitung printed and finally published from 1834 under the editing of Pertz.

From 1836 his son Friedrich Culemann took over his father's business.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hugo Thielen: CULEMANN, (1) Friedrich Bernhard. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 88.
  2. ^ A b Hugo Thielen: Culemann, (2) Friedrich Georg Hermann. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 119f.