Johann David Sauerländer (publisher)
Johann David Sauerländer (born September 30, 1789 in Frankfurt am Main ; November 26, 1869 there ) was a German publisher .
Johann David Sauerländer came from a family of book printers . His father, the printer Johann Christian Sauerländer (1745–1805), moved from Erfurt to Frankfurt in 1771, where he took over the printing works of his father-in-law Johann David Scheper (1702–1771), which had been founded in 1613.
Johann David Sauerländer followed his brother Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer to Basel to the bookseller Samuel Flick and finally to Aarau in 1803 , where he founded a publishing house ( Verlag Sauerländer ). In 1815 he was in Heidelberg at the Mohr & Zimmer publishing house . In 1816 he took over his father's printing business in Frankfurt, until 1818 with his brother Philipp Friedrich, to whom he affiliated a publishing house, JD Sauerländer's Verlag , and a bookstore in 1818 .
Here he stood out primarily as a publisher of literary works in affordable editions, such as by Walter Scott , James Fenimore Cooper , Victor Hugo , Friedrich Rückert and Clemens Brentano . In 1835 he published the literary magazine “Phönix. Spring Newspaper for Germany ”by Eduard Duller and became the publisher of Georg Büchner ; In 1835 he published " Dantons Tod " and in 1850 his posthumous writings.
He also published specialist books in the fields of theology, law, political science, philosophy and forestry . From 1832 he published the “ Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung ”, from 1839 to 1841 the “Israelitische Annalen. A Central Journal for the History, Literature and Culture of the Israelites of All Times and Countries ”, since 1841 the“ Rheinisches Museum für Philologie ”. From 1848 to 1850 he published the “Stenographic Reports on the Negotiations of the German. constituent national assembly in Frankfurt am Main ”(10 volumes).
In 1855 he gave up the bookstore, in 1864 his son Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer (1821–1896) took over the management of the publishing house, and in 1867 he sold the printing company to Mahlau & Waldschmidt.
literature
- Karl Friedrich Pfau : Sauerlander, Johann David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 717 f.
- Dominik Sauerländer: Sauerländer, Johann David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 461 f. ( Digitized version ).
- JD Sauerländer's Verlag 1613, 1816, 1966. Looking back over 150 years . JD Sauerländer's Verlag, Frankfurt 1966.
Web links
- On the history of JD Sauerländer's Verlag
- Sauerlander, Johann David. Hessian biography. (As of February 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Sauerländer, Johann David in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Oehler: Aarau, HR Sauerländer. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sauerlander, Johann David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1869 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |