August Mierzinsky

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Reprint of a half-length portrait of the "Commissair" August Mierzinsky with his facsimile signature;
as yet unidentified artist, around 1820

Ignaz August Mierzinsky (born July 24, 1762 in Wilna ; † 1856 ). was a Polish nobleman and a Franco-German police director , Royal Hanoverian war commissioner and bookseller and publisher .

Life

Born in 1762 in Vilnius, August Mierzinsky enjoyed a noble upbringing at the Theresianum in Vienna .

At the time of the occupation of the Holy Roman Empire by the troops of the French Napoleon Bonapartes , the so-called " French era ", Mierzinsky was police director in Altona from 1803 to 1813 . During these years he worked for a time as "[...] interpreter of the Special War Commissaries", then initially as Secretary General of the management of all previously Hanoverian state domains under the French Count Louis-Philibert Brun d'Aubignosc .

In May 1811, Mierzinsky took over the position of general secretary of the high police headquarters in Hamburg until the French occupation troops were driven out . As a contemporary witness, he later published his memories from Hanover and Hamburg about his views on the history experienced under the French ... , which appeared posthumously in a second edition under the title Under French rule.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover, the family of the later court book dealer Carl Mierzinsky had been living in the Helwingschen Buchhandlung building in Hanover, in the Helwingschen house at 591 Kramerstraße , since the 1820s ; the building was later given the changed house number 13 in the same place. The owner at the time, Dietrich Hellwing, had already accepted August Mierzinsky as a partner in the publishing bookstore in 1820 . Mierzinsky held the title of Royal Hanoverian War Commissioner at the time . According to the address books of the city of Hanover , the "Commissair" August Mierzinsky did not take up his own residence there until the beginning of the 1830s, and acquired the bookstore on July 1, 1833 in favor of his son Carl .

In 1843 Ignaz August Mierzinsky published his memoirs from Hanover and Hamburg from the years 1803–1813 ; however, these memoirs are considered apologetic and unreliable.

After Ignaz August Mierzynski's death, the Helwingsche Buchhandlung, which was relocated to Theaterplatz 3 in 1861 and to Schlägerstrasse 55 on April 1, 1877, was then moved to Emilienstrasse on February 1, 1927 , at least until the mid-1920s Mierzinsky's great-grandson continued.

Fonts

  • Memories from Hanover and Hamburg from the years 1803–1813. Along with an appendix with remarks , Helwing, Leipzig and Hanover 1843, digitized
  • Under French rule. 2nd edition of "Memories from Hanover and Hamburg from the years 1803-1813, by a contemporary" , Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hanover 1919; contents

literature

  • NN : The Helwingsche publishing house in Hanover and the Mierzinsky family. An anniversary , in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Vol. 75, 1908: pp. 7207–7209
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 ; Sponholtz, Hannover 1916 (published posthumously by Rothert's wife A. Rothert), p. 508

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mierzinsky, Ignaz August in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on June 29, 2016
  2. ^ A b R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , E. Kniep, 1880, p. 469; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c d Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material), anniversary publisher Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 324
  4. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b Georg Heinrich Klippel : History ... , review of Mierzinsky's memories ... , in: Neue Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , fourth volume, No. 233 of September 29, 1845, p. 1ff .: digitized version of the Thuringian University - and Jena State Library (THULB) in the viewer of the German Research Foundation
  6. ^ A b Ludwig Hoerner : Bookstores , in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 75ff .; here's. 76; Preview over google books
  7. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Helwing - H. -sche Verlagsbuchhandlung , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 284f.
  8. ↑ Eckardt Opitz (ed.): War and Peace in the Duchy of Lauenburg and its neighboring territories from the Middle Ages to the end of the Cold War (= Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture: Colloquium , vol. 12), ed. on behalf of the Lauenburg Academy, Bochum: Winkler, 2000, ISBN 3-930083-45-0 and ISBN 3-930083-53-1 , p. 234 (note 29 ); Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Mierzinsky, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mierzinsky, Ignaz August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish nobleman, Franco-German police director, Royal Hanoverian war commissioner, court bookseller and publisher as well as non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilna
DATE OF DEATH 1856