Herrmann Julius Meyer

Herrmann Julius Meyer (born April 4, 1826 in Gotha ; † March 12, 1909 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher .

Life

Villa Herrmann Julius Meyer (built 1885/86 by Max Pommer)

Herrmann Meyer was born as the son of the publisher Joseph Meyer in the Thuringian residence city of Gotha in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . After an apprenticeship as a bookseller, he worked for his father's publishing house , which had been founded in Gotha as a bibliographical institute in 1826 and had been in Hildburghausen in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen since 1828 .

As a result of the March Revolution , Herrmann Meyer fled to the USA . In 1849 he founded a branch of the Bibliographical Institute in New York . After the death of his father in 1856 he took over the now economically troubled publishing house and consolidated it. In 1874 he moved the seat of the Bibliographical Institute from Hildburghausen to the Kingdom of Saxony , in the Leipzig suburb of Reudnitz (since 1889 part of Leipzig).

Herrmann Meyer had six sons, including: Hans (1858–1929), Africa explorer and first climber of Kilimanjaro, Arndt (1859–1928), Carl (1861–1908) and Hermann (1871–1932), also an explorer in Africa.

In 1884 Herrmann Meyer withdrew from the publishing house and handed it over to his eldest sons Arndt and Hans. In 1885/86 he had a historicist villa built in what was then Plagwitzer Strasse (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse) in Leipzig's Bach district . These were designed by the architect Max Pommer (1847–1915), who saw Meyer as a fatherly friend.

Meyer houses in Eutritzsch

In 1888 he founded the Association for the Construction of Cheap Apartments in Leipzig . On April 3, 1900, he converted the association into the Foundation for the Construction of Cheap Apartments , today the Meyer'sche Homes Foundation . By 1914, the foundation established four residential colonies with a total of around 2,700 apartments in the Leipzig districts of Lindenau , Eutritzsch , Reudnitz and Kleinzschocher . Meyer again commissioned Max Pommer with the acquisition, planning and development of the land.

Grave site of the Herrmann Julius Meyer family in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Herrmann Meyer was buried in the Leipziger Südfriedhof (III. Department).

Honors

In the year he died, the residents of the Reudnitz colony donated a memorial plaque to him, and in 1928 a street in the Kleinzschocher colony was named Herrmann-Meyer-Straße after him. In the vernacular, he is still honored today by the name Meyersdorf for the Kleinzschocher colony.

literature

Herrmann Julius Meyer on the publication of a conversation lexicon In: Gerhard Menz: Hundert Jahre Meyers Lexikon. Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary of Meyers Lexikon on August 25, 1939 . Bibliographische Institut, Leipzig 1939 (digitized in: retro library)
Meyer, Herrmann Julius , In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 1905, vol. 13, p. 742 f. ( Full text , digitized version )

Heinz Sarkowski: Meyer, Herrmann Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 297 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora: Art Nouveau & Werkkunst. Architecture around 1900 in Leipzig . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6 , p. 152.

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Herrmann Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gotha
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1909
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora: Art Nouveau & Werkkunst. Architecture around 1900 in Leipzig . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6 , p. 152.