Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Elder
Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Elder (born October 30, 1760 in Lemgo ; † March 4, 1831 in Hanover ) was a German bookseller and publisher who founded Hahnsche Buchhandlung in Hanover in 1792 .
Life
After attending school and starting an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Lemgo in 1774, Hahn worked at the Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung in Hanover from 1783 to 1791 . In 1792 he set up his own bookstore with the support and support of the Hanoverian State Minister Franz Ludwig Wilhelm von Reden as well as the Hofrat and personal physician Zimmermann in Hanover.
In 1814 Hahn was a co-founder of the Hanover Biblical Society , for which he commissioned the printer and publisher Friedrich Bernhard Culemann to print 10,000 Bibles the following year .
He soon took his brother Bernhard Heinrich Hahn and Bernhard Dietrich Hahn into the bookstore as co-partners. The bookstore operated in Hanover as the Hahn brothers until 1817 , then as the Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung . He took over several bookshops in Hanover, Halle and Leipzig. When Johann Friedrich Fritsch took over the prestigious Leipzig bookstore founded at the end of the 17th century in 1810, an independent branch was established there under the name of Hahnsche Verlagbuchhandlung .
His partner and son Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Younger continued the business and expanded it.
The gravestone of Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn d. Ä. was later transferred to the son's family burial in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover's Nordstadt district .
literature
- Ernst Kelchner : Hahn, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 361.
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4, p. 329
- Helmut Zimmermann : The Hanoverian portraits second series. Illustrated by Rainer Osswald , Hannover: Harenberg, 1984, ISBN 3-89042-008-7 , p. 61f.
- H. von Thielen: 125 years of the Hahnsche Buchhandlung office building in Hanover , 1917, especially pp. 1-40
- Hugo Thielen : HAHN, (1) Heinrich Wilhelm d. Ä. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 147 and others; online through google books
- Hugo Thielen: Hahn, Heinrich Wilhelm d. Ä (abridged version), in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 249.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b HAHN, (1) Heinrich Wilhelm the Elder Ä (see literature)
- ^ Hugo Thielen: CULEMANN, (1) Friedrich Bernhard. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 88
- ↑ † 1818
- ↑ ... Dietrich after Hugo Thielen : Hahnsche Buchhandlung. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 249
- ↑ since 1818
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahn, Heinrich Wilhelm the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemgo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1831 |
| Place of death | Hanover |