Hans Huber (publisher)

Hans Huber (born August 10, 1884 in Erstfeld , † April 8, 1973 in Bern ) was a Swiss publisher .

In 1917 he became an employee and in 1920 director of the Bern publishing house Ernst Bircher. In 1927 he took over the publishing house and made it a leading medical publisher. At the same time he opened a bookstore at Marktgasse 9 in Bern.

Huber helped Hermann Rorschach print material for the Rorschach test . In 1927 he bought the publishing rights to Rorschach's work Psychodiagnostik from Ernst Bircher's inventory. The new publisher published works in the fields of medicine and psychology .

1958 Huber was the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern , the honorary doctorate awarded. Huber also studied German language and literature for a few semesters in Bern. He married twice (1915 and 1961).

In 1919 his son and later colleague Hans Theodor Huber was born, to whom he handed over the management of his publishing house in 1954. Huber died in 1973. In 1984 his publishing house was sold to Hogrefe-Verlag .

literature

• Christoph Zürcher: Huber, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2006 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christoph Zürcher: Hans Huber. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 17, 2006 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
2. ↑ About the test ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the International Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods .  
3. ^ History of the Hans Huber publishing house (archive version)