Johann Felix Jacob Dalp

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Johann Felix Jacob Dalp (* around 1793 probably in Chur ; † August 25, 1851 in Bern ) was a Swiss publisher .

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Dalp was a bookseller in Gießen from 1813 to 1825 . From 1826 to 1831 he was "Managing Director of the Heyer'schen Hofbuchhandlung in Darmstadt ". From 1828 to 1839 “the three-volume work Switzerland in its knight castles and mountain castles ” was published by Gustav Schwab in his publishing house in Chur . In 1831 Dalp founded "a range and publishing bookstore " in Bern, which by 1851 had published around eighty works from "various subject areas" (mainly educational and scientific literature). After Dalp's "death, it was continued by Karl Schmid and then by Alexander Francke ". Dalp "maintained business relationships with all major bookstores (and publishers) in German-speaking countries, including the Kingdom of Hungary ".

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Peter Oprecht: Dalp, Johann Felix Jacob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .