Georg Peter Monath

Georg Peter Monath (born February 17, 1715 in Nuremberg ; † 1788 ) was a German bookseller and publisher in Nuremberg.

Life

Georg Peter Monath, the son of the Nuremberg bookseller Peter Conrad Monath , attended hospital school as a child. As an adolescent he received home tuition from a theologian and also received training in the “gallant arts” of horse riding , fencing and dancing (it is said that he had three dance teachers), French, geometry, drawing and music (violin). At the same time, his father prepared him early for the management by visiting the trade fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig .

Monath married the daughter of the Nuremberg engraver Johann Georg Ebersberger (1695–1760), whose inheritance fell to his family. With the inheritance he became a co-owner of the Homannische Offizin . He took over his father's business in Nuremberg in 1739. After his death, he became sole managing director , while he left the management of the Vienna branch, founded in 1726, to his siblings.

The management of the Nuremberg company passed to Friedrich Albrecht Monath upon his death .

Publications

• 1787: Georg Heinrich Seiferheld : Collection of electronic toys for young electricians. , First delivery., Nuremberg and Altdorf 1787

literature

• Johann Goldfriedrich , Friedrich Kapp : From the Peace of Westphalia to the beginning of the classical literary period. 1648–1740 (History of the German Book Trade; Vol. 2). Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-02292-4 , p. 415 (reprint of the Leipzig edition 1908).
• Rudolf Schmidt : German bookseller. German book printer. History of the German book industry . Olms, Hildesheim 1979, ISBN 3-487-06943-1 , p. 6409 (6 volumes in one volume; reprint of the Berlin edition 1904/08).
• Rudolf Schmidt: Biographical bookseller lexicon . Pfau Verlag, Leipzig 1901, p. 495.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( digitized version )