Geographical Institute Weimar

The Geographical Institute in Weimar was an important German publisher for map series and globes. It was founded on April 1, 1804 by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and was a subsidiary of his extensive state industrial comptoir for the promotion of economy and society in Saxony-Weimar .

Here were engraver and cartographer active, the atlases , General and special maps of the different continents and countries, hand and travel maps, physical, geological and sky maps, lunar maps and terrestrial and celestial globes manufactured. The Geographical Institute also published relevant journals and geographic-statistical yearbooks. The first scientific geographical journal, published in the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir as early as 1798: Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden ( General Geographical Ephemerides) is pioneering .

The scientific publication was provided by u. a. Franz Xaver von Zach , Adam Christian Gaspari , Heinrich Kiepert , Karl and Adolf Gräf , Carl Ferdinand Weiland , Julius Kettler , Carl Riemer and Karl Christian Bruhns .

In 1822, after Bertuch's death, the institute passed to Friedrich von Froriep , in 1845 to his son Robert Froriep , in 1855 finally to Ludwig Denicke from Lüneburg , 1858 to Voigt & Günther, later to F. Arnd (until 1883), then between 1890 and 1893 to Julius Kettler , 1903 to Max Wedekind .

literature

• Katharina Middell, "Then it will turn into a bogeyman for Otto--": the Weimarer Landes-Industrie-Comptoir as a family business (1800-1830) , p. 295ff