Jan Carel Juta

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Jan Carel Juta, 1863
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Jan Carel Juta (born March 23, 1824 in Zaltbommel , † April 8, 1886 in London ) was a Dutch-South African publisher , bookseller and brother-in-law of Karl Marx .

Life

His parents were the municipal tax collector Hubertus Johannes Juta (* 1796, † 1870) and Maria Albertina, b. Offers (* 1792; † 1879). One of his ancestors, Cornelius Juta (* 1652, † 1732), had emigrated to Amsterdam from Stralsund, Sweden .

Juta was a notary candidate in Zaltbommel and married Louise , a daughter of Heinrich Marx on June 5, 1853 in Trier and church on June 7 in Traben in the presence of her uncle Lion Philips and brother-in-law of her mother Henriette Marx.

After his brother Coenraad Jacobus Juta (* 1827; † 1889), a captain, reported from Cape Town , he decided in 1853 to emigrate to South Africa . On the way to the Cape of Good Hope, the newly wed couple visited Karl Marx and his family in London, further visits to him and Friedrich Engels in Manchester followed. Soon after arriving in South Africa in 1853, he founded JC Juta, Bookseller and Stationer, Wale Street, Cape Town and published school books, government documents and scholarly works. He imported Bibles and hymn books from the Netherlands and England by mail steamer. His publishing house, which still exists today, was the beginning of the South African publishing industry. He was at the head of his company for 30 years. In 1883 he sold part of the company to his authorized signatories Jacobus Cuypers and Thomas Mullins Duncan.

JC Juta & Co., Cape Town around 1860

Juta also made contact with the bilingual newspaper “De Zuid-Afrikaan”. In the issue of March 6, 1854, the article "The War in the East" by Karl Marx appeared. The publisher Jean Henry Smuts (* 1809; † 1873) rejected two further articles in a letter to Marx on March 27, 1854.

Juta and his wife had seven children: Henrietta (* 1854), Jan Carel (* 1855; † 1900), Henry Hubert (* 1857; † 1930), Emilie, Wilhelma, Louise Emilie (* 1861) and Coenraad Jacobus (* 1865 ) Even after 1883, Juta and his family had personal and letter contact with Marx and his daughters ( Laura Lafargue and Eleanor Marx ). Numerous photographs of the Juta family have been preserved in the estate of Laura and Jenny Marx. Juta died in 1886 with his family in London, Sutton Court Road, Chiswick. Eleanor Marx attended his funeral.

Louise Juta returned to the Cape Colony and died on July 3, 1893 in Rondebosch , a southern suburb of Cape Town. She bequeathed more than £ 35,000 to her surviving children, Henry Juta, Wilhelma Juta and Louise Hosmer. including the company shares of "JC Juta & Co."

literature

  • JC Juta . In: Nieuwsblad voor den Boekhandel , The Hague, April 23, 1886.
  • Werner Blumenberg : An Unknown Chapter from Marx's Life. Letters to the Dutch relatives . In: International Review of Social History, 1, 1956, No. 1, pp. 54-111.
  • SA Rochlin: JC Juta, bookseller and publisher . In: Africana Notes and News. Johannesburg 1957, pp. 222-228.
  • GG Lawrie: The identification of an article by Karl Marx in the "The Zuid Afrikaan" . In: Africana Notes and News. Vol. 18. No. September 7, Johannesburg 1969.
  • Olga Meier (ed.): The daughters of Karl Marx. Unpublished letters. from French and English by Karin Kersten and Jutta Prasse . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981 ISBN 3-462-01432-3 .
  • Manfred Schöncke: An unexpected inheritance . In: Yearbook of the IMSF 12th International Marx-Engels Research, Frankfurt / M. 1987, p. 181 ff.
  • Juta history (manuscript) December 2, 1988.
  • Manfred Schöncke: Karl and Heinrich Marx and their siblings . Cologne 1993 ISBN 3-89144-185-1 .
  • Jan Gielkens: Karl Marx and his Dutch relatives. An annotated source edition , Trier 1999 [rather April 2000] (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus 50) ISBN 3-86077-845-5 .
  • Christopher Saunders: Juta, Jan Carel (1824–1886). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 53752
  • Wessel de Kock: The House of Juta. 2007, ISBN 9780620313414

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juta. In: Uit Nederlands Patriciaat Anno 1913 . 4th year, The Hague, pp. 194 ff. Cf. Schöncke, pp. 714–717
  2. ↑ One of his first books was by Charles Weiss: Geschiedenis der Fransche Protestantsche vlugtelingen, van de herroeping van het Edict van Nantes, tot op onzen tijd. Uit het Fransch vertaald en gedeeltelijk Verkort en omgewekt Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion . JC Juta, Kaapstad 1854. See also Schöncke, pp. 661-662.
  3. ^ Juta & Co. South Africa
  4. ^ Marx-Engels Collected Works. Vol. 12, pp. 568-579
  5. ↑ MEGA 2 Department III / Vol. 7, p. 346
  6. ↑ Gielkens, p. 111
  7. ^ Family Marx private
  8. ^ The daughters of Karl Marx, p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Juta, Jan Carel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-South African publisher and bookseller and brother-in-law of Karl Marx
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaltbommel
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1886
Place of death London