Gustav Fock (publisher)

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Karl Heinrich Gustav Fock (born December 3, 1854 in Kolberg , † February 4, 1910 in Leipzig ) was an antiquarian bookseller and publisher in Leipzig. With the establishment of an extensive central office for dissertations and programs and the publication of the monthly bibliographical reports that reported dissertation publications, he created important tools for opening up small scientific literature for the specialized sciences at German universities.

Life

Fock was the son of a gate inspector in Kolberg (Heinrich Friedrich Fock) and Henriette Friederike Luise, nee. Dauss. He was married twice and had nine children from his first marriage to Amalie Beate Malwine, b. Obitz, four of whom died young and two died in the war.

Central office for dissertations and programs

After finishing school, Fock completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Kolberg. He later worked as managing director of an antiquarian book trade for Alfred Lorentz in Leipzig. In 1879 he founded his own bookstore, which quickly specialized in school and university publications and by 1880 was already offering a large inventory of dissertations. In 1884 Fock then founded the “Central Office for Dissertations and Programs”, which soon held hundreds of thousands of small letters. They were offered in numerous catalogs that had been published since 1885, primarily for the natural sciences and linguistics, medicine, geography, philosophy, theology and history. The inventory recorded in the catalogs comprised around 1.5 million titles. From 1889, Fock also published the monthly bibliographic report on newly published school, university and college publications and, from 1904, the chemical novelties . By 1928, around 160,000 titles were listed in the monthly bibliographic report . The Catalogus dissertationum philologicarum classicarum , which was also published, recorded around 18,300 treatises from the fields of classical philology and antiquity .

Antiquarian bookstore and publisher Gustav Fock in Leipzig

A scientific antiquarian bookshop was also built. With the purchase and sale of numerous scholarly libraries (e.g. the library of Karl Sittl ) as well as the evaluation of the attached reference devices (often small fonts), Fock found worldwide recognition in science. Representations of his business were maintained in Europe, America and Japan. The establishment of universities and institutes in Germany and abroad in the second half of the 19th century and the accompanying increase in chairs and student numbers led to a growing need for older academic literature. Fock was one of the first antiquarians to meet this demand, which the previous dispute trade could not satisfy. Above all, he provided literature for scientific disciplines. A publisher affiliated with his trade published books on physical, chemical and mathematical subjects. Important authors published by Fock were the chemists Svante Arrhenius and Wilhelm Ostwald . A number of titles from Renger's bookstore were also taken over.

In 1898, Fock retired and handed over his business to Dr. Leo Jolowicz , under whom the scientific antiquarian bookshop achieved worldwide renown. The publishing house was initially sold in part to the publishing house Bong & Co. , the remaining business went bankrupt in 1908.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Fock, Gustav on the website Jews in Saxony (German-Russian Center Saxony eV), accessed on January 21, 2013
  2. ↑ Georg Jäger , Dieter Langewiesche and Wolfram Siemann (eds.), History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries , Volume 2: Weimar Republic , Part 1, ISBN 978-3-598-24808-5 , KG Baur Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 434
  3. ↑ Onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu (The Online Books Page), accessed on January 21, 2013
  4. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: Family Renger , in: German booksellers. Deutsche Buchdrucker , Volume 5, Berlin / Eberswalde 1908, pp. 812–814
  5. ↑ Georg Jäger, Dieter Langewiesche and Wolfram Siemann (eds.), History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries , Volume 2: Weimar Republic , Part 1, ISBN 978-3-598-24808-5 , KG Baur Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 400
  6. ^ Adalbert Brauer:  Hempel, Karl Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 512 f. ( Digitized version ).
  7. ^ Doris Fouquet-Plümacher, classic editions in the national cultural heritage. The example of Heinrich von Kleist , p. 26  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.6 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ub.fu-berlin.de  

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SURNAME Fock, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1910
Place of death Leipzig