Heinrich Oswalt
Heinrich Oswalt (born August 5, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 30, 1891 there ) was a German publisher and children's book author. He came from a wealthy Frankfurt merchant family.
Life
Heinrich Oswalt initially worked in his father's shop, but at the end of the sixties he gave up the business. Heinrich Oswalt took no other position for a while. During this time he also married the daughter of the Frankfurt pastor Brandine Deichler. Their son Wilhelm Ernst was born on March 15, 1877.
In the seventies he started to work at the publishing house Rütten & Loening , which belonged to his uncle Joseph Rütten . When he died on June 19, 1878 and the partner Karl Friedrich Loening left the same year, Heinrich Oswalt took over the publishing house together with Gottfried Loening. Heinrich Oswalt was on the board of the Central German Booksellers Association and the Frankfurt Booksellers Association for many years. When he died in 1891, Brandine Oswalt took over the publishing house and Wilhelm Ernst Oswalt became an authorized signatory .
Works
- The little ABC contactor. Funny picture alphabet. This book was thought up by a papa and made for his child himself. , Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main
- Heinrich Oswalt (Ed.), Unter'm Märchenbaum: all kinds of fairy tales, stories and fables in rhymes and pictures , illustrated by Eugen Klimsch , Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1877 ( online )
- Heinrich Oswalt (ed.), The Pegasus. Classic picture book for German youth , illustrated by Eugen Klimsch, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1879 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers. German book printer. 5th volume, published by Rudolf Schmidt, Eberswalde 1908, pp. 838-839. ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oswalt, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher and children's book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1891 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |