Gustav Janke (publisher)

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Gustav Janke (around 1895)

Gustav Janke (born January 13, 1849 in Potsdam , † February 11, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German publisher.

Life

Gustav Janke was one of the sons of the Berlin publisher Otto Janke and his wife Edith Rhens. After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium , he studied history and literary history at the University of Marburg , where he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg in 1868 and from 1870 at the University of Göttingen as a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . He took part in the Franco-German War and graduated from the University of Rostock with a doctorate. phil. from.

On July 23, 1873, he became a partner in his father's fiction publishing house, founded in 1843, and the book printing company, in which his older brother Carl was involved and which his older brother took over in 1885 as part of the anticipated succession from his father. The printing company naturally had the family's publishing house as a major customer.

Together with his younger brother Richard Janke, he took over the publishing house from his father in 1885 while he was still alive and expanded it further:

"Dr. Gustav and Richard Janke attached particularly the works of the blossoming Russian and Nordic literature to the publishing house, almost all of Tolstoy's , Turgenev's and Dostoevsky's writings , by the Nordic poets Björnson , Bergsöe and Jacobsen , and following the course of the period after the novels became cheaper , the former created the above-mentioned "Collection Janke", a collection of cheap novels and short stories, which has found the most widespread use, especially as travel reading. In 1888 Louis Schneider's important work "From the Life of Kaiser Wilhelm" was published, and in 1890, at Gustav Janke's instigation, Wilhelm Raabe's writings were published in cheap editions, paving the way for the great success that finally brought the poet's 70th birthday. The "Deutsche Roman-Zeitung" was entrusted in 1881 after the departure of the previous editor Robert Schweichel to the skillful management of Otto von Leixner , who especially redesigned the supplement according to his views. The large number of modern authors who have since joined the old ones shows that the maintenance of the contemporary novel remained the main task of the publishing house in accordance with the previous tradition. "

- Rudolf Schmidt
Gustav Janke (mural far left) as a deceased member of the full committee of the Association of Old Corps Students

After the cardiac death of his brother Richard on August 6, 1897, he became the sole owner of the Janke publishing house. Gustav Janke also died a few years later in 1901. Until his sudden death he was a member of the general committee of the Association of Old Corps Students .

After Gustav Janke's early death, his wife Editha ran the publishing house together with two experienced authorized signatories until it was taken over by their son Erich Janke (* 1878) after his return from the Universities of Göttingen , Berlin and for a year after his father's death Rostock on January 1st, 1903. After Leixner's death in 1907, he also took over the editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Roman-Zeitung. The Deutsche Roman-Zeitung appeared in the publishing house from 1864 to 1944. The publishing house existed in Berlin until 1945.

Fonts

literature

  • Rudolf Schmidt : German bookseller. German book printer. 1st to 6th vol. Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin (later: Verlag von Rudolf Schmidt, Eberswalde), 1902–1908. (online at: zeno.org )
  • HE de Wyl (ed.): Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825-2000 .
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809–1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 219 No. 710.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 166 , 483.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 70 , 399.
  3. ↑ In Rostock Matrikelportal not listed.
  4. ↑ 1900 member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen; see. Kösener corps lists 1910, 70 , 528.
  5. ^ Entry in 1901 in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  6. ^ Roman newspaper at zeitschriften.de.
  7. ↑ German novel newspaper (digitized version )

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Janke, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1901
Place of death Berlin