Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann

Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann

Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (born August 25, 1811 in Hanover ; † December 6, 1886 there ) was a German entrepreneur, local politician, and art and book collector.

Live and act

Culemann was the son of the Hanoverian book printer and bookseller Friedrich Bernhard Culemann and the nephew of the cartographer Friedrich Wilhelm Culemann . After attending grammar school and completing commercial training, in 1836 he took over his father's business, Culemann, printing and publishing house in Hanover , where the Monumenta Germaniae Historica had been printed since 1826 and the Hannoversche Zeitung was published from 1832 . In 1834 he was accepted into the Masonic Lodge "Zum Schwarzen Bär" in Hanover. In 1837 he married Wilhelmine Dorothea Fiedler.

Hanoverian postage stamp printed by Culemann with the portrait of King George V.

Under his leadership, the family business became the leading printing company in the Kingdom of Hanover and was nicknamed the Welfdruckerei . In 1838 Culemann purchased the first high-speed press in Hanover; Hanover's first postage stamps were printed here in 1850 .

In 1857 Culemann bought the Hanoverian advertisements and combined them with the Hannoversche Zeitung to form the government-friendly Neue Hannoversche Zeitung .

From 1844 to 1886 he was Senator for the city of Hanover. As a member of the municipal building commission, Culemann was involved in the construction of the school complex consisting of the Realgymnasium and Ratsgymnasium in 1854 on Georgsplatz .

Detailed view of the tomb of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann in the Engesohde city cemetery, Hanover

Culemann amassed a large art and book collection in decades of collecting. This included medieval sculptures, panel paintings from Germany and the Netherlands, autographs, coins and medals. The main focus of his books was a typographic library and an extensive collection of incunabula . He played an important role in the tradition of Reineke Fuchs . Culemann had acquired seven sheets of a print containing a Central Dutch version of the Reynaert ; you are in Cambridge today . The fragments could be identified with the printer of the Antwerp prose version, Geeraert Leeu , and formed the missing link to the Lübeck incunable Reynke de vos of 1498; In 1862 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben had the previously almost unknown Culemann fragments reprinted. In 1861, Culemann succeeded in discovering the Gospel writer Henry the Lion, who was believed to be lost, in Prague and mediated it to King George V.

Tomb

The tomb of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover, Department 2 . Grave number 4a - 4c .

estate

In 1887 the city of Hanover acquired the Culemann collection. Together with the August Kestner collection , it forms the basis of the collections of the Kestner Museum . In 1889/90, most of the books from the Culemann collection (approx. 2000 volumes) were given to the Hanover City Library , which at that time was still in the Kestner Museum building. Only works related to art history were assigned to the Kestner Museum. The Kestner Museum also received around 150 medieval manuscripts, 2400 autographs and around 700 incunabula from the Culemann collection, of which around 400 are still available today. The city library had already received two manuscripts from Culemann as gifts in 1843 and 1861.

Culemann's Bibliotheca Typographica had already been auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1870 . Books with this provenance can be found in many libraries around the world, such as a Koberger print of the Legenda Aurea from 1480, today in the library of the University of London

Awards and honors

Friedrich Georg Culemann was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor for Art and Science and was honored with the Guelph Order in 1861 . In Hanover, the connection between Friedrichswall and Kurt-Schwitters-Platz that had existed since 1910 was named Culemannstrasse in 1935 .

Fonts (incomplete)

• The legend of the knight Mr. Peter Diemringer von Staufenberg in Ortenau. Hanover: Culemann 1849
• The Gospel of Duke Henry the Lion. [Hanover: Culemann] [1864]
• Carl Ludwig Grotefend : History of the book printing works in the Hanoverian and Braunschweigische Landen , ed. from FGH Culemann, Hanover: Hahn'sche Hof-Buchhandlung, 1840; Preview over google books

literature

• Manfred von Bötticher: Life and work of Senator Friedrich Culemann: “Passion for collecting” in Hanover in the 19th century . In: Ulrich Gehrig (Ed.): 100 Years of the Kestner Museum Hannover 1889–1989 . Kestner – Museum, Hannover 1989, ISBN 9783924029142 , pp. 19–33.
• Konrad Ernst: The cradle prints of the Kestner Museum. Cradle prints from the Culemann collection. Newly edited and supplemented by Christian Heusinger. [Vorw. Irmgard Woldering]. Kestner Museum, Hannover 1963 (picture catalogs of the Kestner Museum Hannover 4)
• Karl Ludwig Grotefend : Incunabula collection from FGH Culemann. Hanover: [sn] 1844
• W. Hartwieg: Friedrich Culemann. In: E. Kalthoff (Ed.): Lower Saxon Life Pictures. Volume 8. Hildesheim 1973, pp. 59-65
• Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity" - the institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history . Dissertation University of Halle 2002; Pp. 381–383 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Thorsten Henke: Collecting in Hanover: Friedrich Culemann (1811–1886) and his collection in an urban context , Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019, ISBN 9783865257185 .
• Hugo Thielen : Culemann, Friedrich Georg Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 88.

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Thielen: Culemann, Friedrich Bernhard. In: Dirk Böttcher (Ed.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 9783877067062 , p. 88.
2. ^ ^{A b} Hugo Thielen: Culemann, Friedrich Georg Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher (Ed.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 9783877067062 , p. 88.
3. ↑ Cambridge, University Library, Inc. 4 F 6.2 (3367).
4. ^ C. Schiefler: The German late medieval "Reineke-Fuchs" poetry and its adaptations up to modern times. In: Aspects of the Medieval Animal Epic . Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series I / Studias III, Leuven 1975; P. 87.
5. ↑ Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity" - the institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history . Dissertation Halle 2002; P. 382 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
6. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012
7. ^ Library of the Kestner Museum , entry in the manual for historical book holdings , accessed on August 20, 2011.
8. ^ Udo Kühne: Manuscripts in Hanover: City Library, City Archives, Lower Saxony Main State Archives, State Church Archives. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991, p. 15 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ See Catalog of a bibliotheca typographica [the property of FGH Culemann]. Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7th Feb. 1870 and 3 following days. 1870 ( digitized copy of a copy from the Bodleian Library with handwritten annotations on prices and buyers).
10. ↑ Senate House Library, University of London: Book of the month, October 2008 ( Memento of August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 20, 2011.
11. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive , sheet K 34

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann in the catalog of the German National Library