Jacob Anton Mayer
Jacob Anton Mayer , b. as Isaak Abraham Mayer , (born September 8, 1782 in Burgkunstadt near Bamberg ; † December 26, 1857 ) was a bookseller and publisher as well as the founder of Mayer's bookstore in Aachen .
Live and act
Isaak Abraham Mayer was the son of the Jewish teacher Abraham Mayer and his wife Eva, née Vietor. In 1816 he settled in Aachen with his wife Fanny, née Feust (1797–1864); the couple had six children, four sons and two daughters. Here Mayer took over a public library , the Baumhauer'sche Books defeat and then received a year later, the book trade concession . In 1822 he founded the Aachener Stadtzeitung and also published other important magazines of that time, such as the Rheinische Provinzialblätter and the Westliche Blätter for entertainment, art, literature and life edited by Louis Lax . In 1829 Mayer was baptized as a Protestant and officially took the first name Jacob Anton instead of Isaac Abraham .
By his death in 1857, Mayer developed a recognized book trading and publishing company. Initially, the main focus of the range was the publication of German-language translations of foreign literature. Among other things, the first German-language edition of Molière's works was published here in 1838 . Together with Emil Flateau, he finally founded the first branch in Brussels in 1847 .
Jacob's sons Eduard Heinrich (1821–1885) and Carl Ludwig Maximilian (1827–1902) also trained as booksellers and later settled in Cologne and Leipzig . After Jacob's death, his son Carl Ludwig Maximilian initially took over his father's company and was later appointed royal Prussian court bookseller. Due to an illness he could no longer continue the company and sold the retail bookstore and the lending library to his colleague Gustav Schwienig, but kept the publishing house himself.
Of the two other sons of Jacobs, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (1825–1905) became a doctor of medicine, secret medical council and co-founder of the Luisen Hospital in Aachen. His son Otto Eugen Mayer was an archaeologist and journalist and was curator of the Aachen city archeology from 1924 to 1933 before he emigrated to Eupen because of the anti-Semitic agitation in Germany .
One of Jacobs' two daughters, Luise Theresia Mayer (1829–1907), married the Düsseldorf steel entrepreneur Julius Poensgen from the industrial family Poensgen .
literature
- Crous, Helmut A./Falter, Helmut: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the JA Mayer'schen Buchhandlung , magazine of the Aachener Geschichtsverein , Volume 78/79, Aachen, 1967.
Web links
- Family history of the Mayersche bookstore (on the Mayerschen homepage)
- Critical appreciation of the Mayer bookstore
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Jacob Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Jakob Abraham (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German founder of Mayersche Buchhandlung |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgkunstadt near Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1857 |