Joachim Pauli

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Joachim Pauli

Joachim Pauli (born September 20, 1733 in Stettin , † December 29, 1812 in Berlin ) was a German printer and publisher. In 1761 he founded a publishing house in Berlin , which became known in particular for publishing extensive reference works.

Life

Pauli completed his training as a bookseller in October 1755 in the Haude & Spenersche publishing house in Berlin . In 1761 he received a privilege to run a range of publishing houses and quickly advanced to become one of the more important companies in Berlin. His publishing program, which comprised almost 500 titles from 1768–1825, consisted mainly of economic, agricultural, forestry, biological and zoological works, of which today in particular his editions of the Krünitz Encyclopedia, the Natural History of Insects by Carl Gustav Jablonsky and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst and the Allgemeine History of Nature by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon are remembered.

From 1801, Pauli appears purely as a publisher. In addition to his bookselling and publishing activities, Pauli was also active as a reprinter, in some cases with the permission of the authorities, as in the case of Gellert's writings originally published by Reich und Fritsch in Leipzig , which he received in 1765 with Prussian privilege on the condition that half of the Saxon price was granted sell reprinted. His biggest publishing business, which in 1773 published in 242 volumes to 1858 Krünitzsche Encyclopedia , however, was a victim of a robbery printer , the in Brno operating Johann Georg Trassler which reprinted the first 129 volumes of the works of 1787-1815.

Pauli was married twice and had no biological children. As the sole heir to his fortune, he appointed his second wife, Louise Christiane Jacobine Pauli , a née pupil, who continued the publishing house until 1823 after his death.

literature

  • Artur Georgi: The development of the Berlin book trade up to the establishment of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels in 1825 . Berlin 1926.
  • Article "Joachim Pauli" in Lexicon of the whole book industry - LGB² , Volume 5, 2nd edition Stuttgart 1999, p. 573.
  • Heinrich Gustav Flörke: Obituary for Pauli in the 123rd volume (Berlin 1813, preliminary report) of the Krünitz encyclopedia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pr. Go. State Archives, General Directorate Kurmark, Tit. 115, Berlin, Sect. 09, No. 7
  2. ^ General directory of all bookshops , Leipzig 1801

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personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1812
Place of death Berlin