George Friedrich Hartung

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George Friedrich Hartung (born December 18, 1782 in Königsberg ; † April 4, 1849 ) was a German printer, publisher and, in the third generation, editor of the royal privileged Prussian state, war and peace newspaper published in Königsberg .

Life

Hartung was the son of the Königsberg bookseller, printer and publisher Gottlieb Lebrecht Hartung (1747–1797). His wife Sophie Charlotte Hartung continued the printing company as a widow, but the bookstore was given up and continues to this day as Gräfe und Unzer in the Ganske publishing group . George Friedrich Hartung first learned the printing trade in the family company from 1797 to 1799 and then studied law and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg from September 1799 . In 1817 he took over the management of the family business founded by his grandfather Johann Heinrich Hartung from his mother and ran it until shortly after his death; In 1848 he handed over to his eldest son Georg Hartung , who later left the company management to his brother Hermann Hartung (1823-1901). In 1834 George Friedrich Hartung was appointed royal court printer . During the French era , the Hartung family was exposed to considerable repression by the French occupation.

When Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his wife Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria came to Koenigsberg to pay homage on August 29, 1840 , Hartung made his house in Schönbusch available to them. There they could rest and receive a first deputation from the magistrate , city ​​councilors and the merchants .

Hartung was active in local politics as a liberal city councilor and was made an honorary citizen of Königsberg.

Fonts

  • [George Friedrich Hartung] ( Anonymus ): Academic memory book for those who moved into Königsberg University between 1787 and 1817. Hartungsche Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Königsberg 1825.
  • Academic souvenir book for those who moved into Königsberg University between 1817 and 1844: Published on the occasion of the university's third secular celebration. Hartungsche Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Königsberg 1844. (digitized version)

Individual evidence

  1. MS Pinto, A. Bouheiry: The German geologist Georg Hartung (1821-1891) and the geology of the Azores and Madeira islands . Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Volume 287, 2007, pp. 229-238 (English). doi : 10.1144 / SP287.18 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. Wulf D. Wagner, Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg Castle. A building and cultural history. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1953-0 , p. 213.

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