Hermann Joseph Baer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hermann Joseph Baer (born October 12, 1811 in Bockenheim near Frankfurt am Main , † 1881 in Paris ) was a German antiquarian and bookseller.

Life

Hermann Joseph Baer was the son of the antiquarian Joseph Baer (1767-1851). In 1824 he passed the business on to his sons Bernhard Joseph Baer (1799–1864), who became authorized signatory, Leopold Joseph (1805–1861) and Hermann Joseph. On April 23, 1834, Bernhard Joseph Baer, ​​who was now a citizen of Frankfurt, officially registered the company as Joseph Baer - Handlung und Spedition, combined with an antiquarian book store ; from 1836 it traded as Joseph Baer, ​​an antiquarian book and art dealer in the his brothers became authorized signatories. While Hermann Joseph bought books on trips to England, France, Italy and Holland, among others, Leopold ran the business in Frankfurt. In 1841 Bernhard Joseph and Hermann Joseph left the company and Leopold Joseph took over management of the company. In 1847 Hermann Joseph rejoined the management. In 1853 he and his brother Leopold were appointed "Chief Commissioners of the Imperial Public Libraries in Moscow and St. Petersburg etc." by the Russian Tsar. After Leopold Joseph's death in 1861, Hermann continued the business with his widow until Leopold's son Simon Leopold (1845–1919) took over this share, who had run the company, now Joseph Baer & Co. , since 1873 with Hermann's son Saly Baer (1855 –1882), headed. Hermann went to France in 1869 and founded a branch in Paris in 1871, which his second son Joseph (* 1853) took over after his death in 1881, but who died in 1884. The Paris business was then sold to F. Fetscherin ("Joseph Baer et Cie. (Jules Moutonnet et F. Fetscherin successeurs)"). In 1871 he also entered into an association with Henry Sotheran's second-hand bookshop in London, which was dissolved again in 1873, but the London branch continued until 1884.

His daughter Betty (1850–1879) was married to the orientalist Hartwig Derenbourg , who also temporarily ran the Parisian branch of the antiquarian bookshop.

literature

  • Frankfurt Observer No. 277, November 25, 1881, p. 2.
  • Eberhard Henze: Baer, ​​Hermann Joseph . In: Lexicon of the entire book industry . 2nd Edition. Volume 1. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1987, p. 218.
  • Andrea Hopp: Jewish bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-06985-2 , pp. 49-50. 91, 170, 204.
personal data
SURNAME Baer, ​​Hermann Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German antiquarian and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockenheim
DATE OF DEATH 1881
Place of death Paris