Friedrich Nicolovius
Matthias Friedrich Nicolovius (born May 18, 1768 in Königsberg ; † 1836 ) was a German publisher. He was one of the publishers of Immanuel Kant and founder of the Brothers Borntraeger publishing bookstore .
Life
Nicolovius was the son of Hofrat Matthias Balthasar Nicolovius (1717–1778). He had a twin brother Balthasar and an older brother Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius (1767-1839), who was a Prussian ministerial official. After attending the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg, he began training as a bookseller with Johann Friedrich Hartknoch in Riga . From 1790 he had a bookshop in Königsberg. From 1791 he published the Königsberg scholars advertisements. He published as a publisher alongside Kant Johann Georg Hamann , August Kotzebue , Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , Johann Heinrich Voss , Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , Johann Georg Schlosser . In 1818 he sold his publishing house to the Borntraeger brothers.
Von Kant's publications include: To Eternal Peace (1795), Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Controversy of the Faculties (1798), Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason (1793), Anthropology in a Pragmatic View (1798), Über a discovery according to which all new criticisms of pure reason are to be dispensed with by an older one (1790).
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| SURNAME | Nicolovius, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nicolovius, Matthias Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1836 |