Friedrich Johannes Frommann

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Friedrich Johannes Frommann
Friedrich Johannes Frommann

Friedrich Johannes Frommann (born August 9, 1797 in Züllichau ; † June 6, 1886 in Jena ) was a German publisher , bookseller and politician .

Life

Born as the son of the publisher and bookseller Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann , Frommann, after finishing high school in Gotha and training as a bookseller and typesetter , attended lectures in history in Jena from 1816 to 1817 , continued his apprenticeship as a printer and became a student in Berlin . After he had been a member of the original fraternity in Jena , he became a co-founder of the fraternity there in Berlin in 1818 . In 1817 he was a participant and chronicler of the Wartburg Festival . During this time he informed Goethe about the ideas and activities of the fraternities.

From September 1818 to June 1820 he stayed in Hamburg . There he also became a member of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 , where he was initially active as a gymnast . After Wilhelm Benecke (1797–1827), a Jahn student and founder of the gymnastics association, returned to Berlin, he took over his position as gymnastics supervisor for the Hamburg gymnastics association from April 1, 1819 until his personal return to Jena in June 1820.

From 1823 he worked in the family business (today: Frommann-Holzboog Verlag ), became a partner in 1825 and took over its management in 1837. As a publisher and bookseller , he published numerous works by Jena professors. He was a co-founder and several times head of the Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig . In 1852 he was a founding member and first cashier of the Association for Thuringian History . From 1853 to 1855 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach for the constituency of Apolda and from 1859 to 1861 for the constituency of Jena . He was also a member of the Jena City Council for many years.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • The boys' festival on the Wartburg on October 18th and 19th, 1817. Jena 1818. ( Archive )
  • Paperback for budding foot travelers. A spring gift dedicated to German youth. Jena 1843, new edition Berlin 1984.
  • The Frommannsche Haus and his friends 1792-1837. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1870 ( Google Books )
  • History of the stock exchange association of German booksellers. Leipzig 1875. ( Google Books )
  • Hermann Freiherr von Rotenhan. A picture of life 1800–1858. Jena 1882.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Turnwarte der Hamburger Turnerschaft from 1816. In: Das Turnen. Festival for the centenary of the Hamburg gymnastics club v. 1816 on Sept. 2, 1916. Hamburg Regional Association for Youth Care (Ed.), Hamburg 1916, p. 43. ( online )