Friedrich Cohen

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Friedrich Cohen (born July 5, 1836 in Bonn ; † May 30, 1912 ibid) was a German bookseller and publisher in Bonn.

family

Friedrich Moritz Cohen was the son of Maximilian (Meyer) Cohen (born July 4, 1806 in Bonn; † November 10, 1865 in Bonn) and Henriette Gottschalk (born June 20, 1806 in Düsseldorf; † April 26, 1873 in Cologne). He was born on July 5, 1836 in Bonn in Haus Bonngasse 20 ( Beethoven House ). Friedrich Cohen was of Jewish faith, but was baptized together with his wife Helene in St. Georg, Hamburg, in 1881. He died on May 30, 1912 and was buried in the Poppelsdorf cemetery. He was the great-grandson of the electoral Cologne rabbi Simcha Benjamin Cohen and grandson of the Cologne banker Benjamin Cohen. His brother was the art historian Walter Cohen . His grandson was Frederic Cohen .

Act

Friedrich Cohen did his training from 1851 to 1856 in his father's shop. From 1857 to 1861 he trained as an assistant in Prague, Vienna and Oldenburg. From 1861 he was managing director of the Henry & Cohen bookstore. From 1865 he was the sole owner of the company. He expanded the activities through an antiquarian bookshop and art exhibition. In his art salon he promoted contemporary German Expressionism Sonderbund (painting) . For more see: Universitätsbuchhandlung und Verlag Friedrich Cohen . In contrast to his father, Friedrich had a lively, witty, genuine Rhenish temperament. In the obituary, the Kölnische Zeitung wrote: "There are only a few booksellers in Germany who are so closely connected with the book buyers and the creative spiritual world."

literature

  • One hundred years of Friedrich Cohen Bonn. Presented to the friends of the Friedrich Cohen company in the year of its centenary . Bonn on the Rhine 1929
  • Theodor A. Henseler: University bookstore and publisher H. Bouvier u. Co. , in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter Vol. 7, 1953
  • Klaus HS Schulte: Bonn Jews and their descendants until around 1930 , Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1976, ISBN 3-7928-0383-6
  • Herbert Grundmann, editor: Bouvier 1828–1978 . Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-416-01454-5
  • Helga Fremerey-Dohnau and Renate Schoene, arrangement: Jüdisches Geistesleben in Bonn 1786–1945 , Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7928-0489-1
  • Erich Cohen: Preserved - life under protective hands , page 491-502, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-930250-30-6
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher in Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1912
Place of death Bonn