Heinrich Albert Hofmann

Heinrich Albert Hofmann (born March 8, 1818 in Berlin ; † August 19, 1880 there ) was a German bookseller , publisher and theater manager .

Life

Heinrich Albert Hofmann opened a publishing and assortment business in Berlin in 1845 , A. Hofmann & Comp. , but later he devoted himself exclusively to publishing.

By far the most successful of his published articles is the humorous-satirical weekly newspaper Kladderadatsch , which he founded in May 1848 in association with David Kalisch , its rapid blossoming, its preservation in all storms of the reaction time , its upswing to a well-known world paper not for the slightest part of his bookseller prudence Thanks to agility and energy.

Mention should also be made of the collection of national and international classics organized by him and the publication of a number of artistically illustrated splendid works.

The General Association for German Literature , which came into being in 1873, owes its establishment mainly to Hofmann's initiative, to whom the management of the company was entrusted. In the last years of his life he was also the owner of the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater in Berlin. After his death in 1881, his son Rudolf Emil Hofmann took over the business.

Death and grave

Grave of the Hofmann couple in Berlin-Kreuzberg with a grave monument designed by Erdmann Encke

Heinrich Albert Hofmann died in Berlin in 1880 at the age of 62. His grave is in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg . He rests there next to his wife Emma, nee. Knauth (1824-1864).

The grave monument designed by Erdmann Encke , crowned by a 1.35 m high sculpture, depicts an angel who comfortingly grasped the hand of a mourner in the complex, which is enclosed by a wrought iron grille . On the front of the grave stele is a medallion with the portraits of the Hofmann couple in profile. It is a copy that replaces the lost original and was made on the basis of historical photographs on the occasion of the restoration of the facility before 2012.

literature

Eckhard Schulz: Hofmann, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 445 f. ( Digitized version ).
KF Pfau: Hofmann, Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 433.

Web links

Christine Haug, Hofmann's "Humorous Railway and Travel Library" (1853-1896) (PDF file; 148 kB)

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 232. Witty political strolling. Albert Hofmann tomb . Brief biography of Hofmann and description of the tomb on the website "Berliner Grabmale Retten" of the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (accessed on March 25, 2019).

personal data
SURNAME	Hofmann, Heinrich Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller, publisher and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1880
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 232. Witty political strolling. Albert Hofmann tomb . Brief biography of Hofmann and description of the tomb on the website "Berliner Grabmale Retten" of the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (accessed on March 25, 2019).