Johann Ambrosius Barth
Johann Ambrosius Barth (born June 8, 1760 in Thalschütz near Merseburg , † July 16, 1813 in Leipzig ) was a German bookseller and publisher . He was the namesake for the Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag , which existed until 1999.
Life
Johann Ambrosius Barth was the son of the farmer and judge Johann Samuel Barth (1730–1790) and his wife Maria Elisabeth, née Mehlgarten. He trained as a bookseller in Halle and Berlin .
In 1789 Barth married the widow Catharina Wilhelmina Haug, née Mann, (1755–1799) and in 1790 took over the publishing house, which her first husband Johann Philipp Haug (1747–1784) had founded in 1780 in Leipzig.
Under Barth, the publishing house devoted itself increasingly to the publication of scientific works in addition to entertainment literature, with theology initially being the focus. But history, medicine, education, natural sciences and philosophy also began to establish themselves. With the journal Annalen der Physik the publishing house got a solid scientific and financial basis.
In 1811 Barth was elected as the book trade deputy and in this capacity he campaigned for improvements in the book trade, including new regulations in censorship , the fight against reprinting and the freedom of trade.
Barth was a member of the Armendirektorium of Leipzig and took over social services in the military hospital at the beginning of the liberation wars . He died of hospital typhus after an infection . Then his son Wilhelm Ambrosius took over the publishing house.
In 1925 the city of Leipzig honored him by naming a green area in the Stötteritz district as Ambrosius-Barth-Platz .
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 39
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Ambrosius Barth in the German Digital Library
- Marion Bähr: Barth, Johann Ambrosius . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Barth, Johann Ambrosius in Leipzig biography
- Article about Johann Ambrosius Barth in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1875)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Leipzig: Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, 1995. ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 21
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Johann Ambrosius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thalschütz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1813 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |