Johann Gött
Johann Gött (born December 10, 1810 in Wehrheim , Taunus , † October 17, 1888 ) was a Transylvanian book printer and newspaper publisher.
Life
Johann Gött learned printer in Frankfurt am Main and went on wanderings via Berlin , Warsaw , Vienna , Graz , Austrian Trieste , Pest in Hungary to Sibiu in Transylvania and briefly to Bucharest . At the end of 1830 the printer Friedrich August Herfurth died in Kronstadt ; At the age of 22, Gött took over the company founded by Schobeln in 1539. In 1834 he married the daughter of Peter Arzt, a wealthy cooper from Kronstadt.
On January 21, 1834 he received permission from the magistrate to publish a weekly newspaper . George Bariț became its editor around 1836 . From May 24, 1837 to March 22, 1849 he published the Siebenbürger Wochenblatt and from December 1, 1837 to December 26, 1839 the Erdelyi Hirlap . From 1839 onwards he published the calendar “ The Useful Rathgeber” (from 1860 “ The Saxon House Friend” ). In June 1848 Wilhelm Johann Krafft began his book printer apprenticeship here . In 1849 he had to stop publication and was often persecuted. In addition, he brought out the Kronstädter Zeitung from 1849 .
From 1851 he was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its President between 1866 and 1876. Around 1871 he worked with the Protestant pastor and teacher Samuel Traugott Schiel (1812–1881). In 1871 he applied to the Kronstadt City Council for 30 florins for the construction of a road through the Hoaban to Schulerau . In the following year, Hungarian mountain troops began to build a road with low gradients from Schulerau towards the outskirts. On October 26, 1876, he became mayor of Kronstadt. In 1883 his son Heinrich died.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Trausch von Trauschenfels, Johann Karl Eugen . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1883, p. 36 ( digitized version ).
- Gernot Nussbächer: Tipographic brașovean Johann Gött (1810-1888) . In: Tara Bârsei , Brasov, anul IV (XV), 2005, serie nouã, no. 4, p. 9.
- Hermann Tontsch: The Honterus press in 400 years ; Kronstadt, 1933
- Camil Mureșanu: The National Press: The Romanian Press. In: Helmut Rumpler , Peter Urbanitsch (ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918. Volume VIII: Political Public and Civil Society. Volume 2: The press as a factor in political mobilization. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7001-3568-5 , pp. 2127-2148.
Individual evidence
- ↑ tara-barsei.ro (PDF; 52 kB)
- ↑ mek.niif.hu
- ↑ tara-barsei.ro (PDF; 128 kB)
- ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Trausch von Trauschenfels, Johann Karl Eugen . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1883, p. 36 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ sevenbuerger.de
- ↑ L. Binder: Schiel, Samuel Traugott (1812-1881), pastor and teacher. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 115.
- ↑ karpatenwilli.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gott, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian printer and newspaper publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wehrheim , Taunus |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1888 |