Hermann Roskoschny
Hermann Emil Joseph Roskoschny (born November 23, 1845 in Prague , † November 8, 1896 in Berlin ) was a German writer and publisher .
Life
Roskoschny studied in Prague (where he also became a member of Corps Austria , from which he later left) and Munich . In 1872 and 1873 he was a lecturer in St. Petersburg . From 1874 to 1877 he was editor of the magazine Der Hausfreund . Around 1894 he ran the Slavic bookstore H. Roskoschny in Leipzig together with a publisher. His book on Afghanistan and its neighboring countries was the most extensive work published in German on this topic in the 19th century. It is still published as a standard work. As a translator , he translated the works of Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy from Russian into German.
Works
- Asiatic Russia . Gressner & Schramm, Leipzig 1884
- The Volga and its tributaries . Leipzig 1887
- Poor Russia. A contribution to the knowledge of the economic situation of the Russian Empire . Leipzig 1889
- Afghanistan and its neighboring countries , unchanged. Emphasis. Spieth, Kirchheim unter Teck 1982, ISBN 3-9800836-0-8
- History of the strike . Alfred H. Fried, Berlin 1890, gallica.bnf.fr
- Europe's colonies . Volume 1: West Africa from Senegal to Cameroon. Volume 2: The Congo area and its neighboring countries. Volume 3: East Africa and the Lake District. Volume 4: South Africa to the Zambezi and Cape Frio. Volume 5: The Germans in the South Seas. Gressner & Schramm, Leipzig 1885–1890.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Roskoschny in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of works at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Death register Berlin VIII, 1896, entry no.2765
- ↑ Semester report summer 1893, p. 11 (PDF)
- ^ Graf, Graf: The origins of the modern media industry
- ↑ There he published, for example, JA Dembo: Schächten in comparison with other slaughtering methods , 1894
- ^ Wilhelm Löwenstein (Ed.): Contributions to contemporary Afghanistan research . ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Bochum 1997, p. 39
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SURNAME | Roskoschny, Hermann |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roskosnyj, German; Roskosnyj, Herman |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1845 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1896 |
Place of death | Berlin |