Georg von Cotta

Georg von Cotta's birthplace

Johann Georg Freiherr Cotta von Cottendorf (born July 19, 1796 in Tübingen , † February 1, 1863 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher.

Life and publishing

Cotta von Cottendorf was born as the son of Wilhelmine and Johann Friedrich Cotta and began to study philosophy , aesthetics and political science in Göttingen , Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1815 to 1817 , but did not complete it due to illness. It was not until 1819 that he was healthy enough to take up a job. At first he considered a diplomatic career as secretary to Baron Karl August von Wangenheim . Then he accompanied August Heinrich von Trott zu Solz to Vienna to negotiate the final act of the German Bundestag . In 1821 Cotta resigned from the diplomatic service as legation counselor in order to be available to his father's publishing house.

From 1824 he and his father edited the “ Morgenblatt für educated Estates ” for four years and gradually took over the father's duties. After his death in 1832, he and his brother-in-law Hermann von Reischach took over the family business and headed it for 30 years. He was the founder and editor of the German quarterly journal .

The companies Göschen from Leipzig and the Vogelsche Bibelanstalt from Landshut were merged with the Cotta publishing house. Cotta won the following new authors for the publishing house: Nikolaus Lenau , Eduard Mörike , Gottfried Kinkel , Ferdinand Freiligrath , Franz von Dingelstedt , Friedrich Hebbel , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Karl Simrock , Emanuel Geibel and Heinrich Heine .

politics

From 1833 to 1849 he was a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament as a representative of the knighthood of the Black Forest district . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament .

Honors

The plant genera Cottea Kunth from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and Cottendorfia Schult.f are named after him . from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae).

literature

Liselotte Lohrer: Cotta von Cottendorf, Johann Georg Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 379 f. ( Digitized version ).
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 120-121 .

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

State bibliography of Baden-Württemberg

personal data
SURNAME	Cotta, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cotta von Cottendorf, Johann Georg Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1863
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .