Johann Georg Heck

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Johann Georg Heck (* 1795 in Strasbourg ; † November 20, 1857 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher, lithographer , cartographer , geographer and author. He became known through his work Picture Atlas for Conversations Lexicon. Iconographic encyclopedia of the sciences and arts , which, along with Meyer's Universum, is one of the most extensive German-language works of the 19th century.

life and work

Heck was born in Strasbourg as the son of Johann Georg Heck senior and his wife Maria Salome Höger. After retiring as head of the lithography department of the Freiburg Art Institute founded by the publisher Bartholomä Herder in 1828, he worked as an employee of a Franco-German bookstore in Paris from 1830. In 1833 he became managing director of the newly opened Parisian branch of the Herder & Cie publishing house , which existed until its closure in 1840. In November 1834 he married Johanna Herder (1803-1887), the daughter of Bartholomä Herder.

In 1830 the work Atlas geographique, astronomique et historique servant à l'intelligence de l'histoire ancienne, du moyen âge et modern et à la lecture des voyages les plus recens was published, in 1838 he published the Atlas des familles with Léon Plée . La France geographique, industrial et historique .

In 1844 he began his ten-part work Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon. Iconographic encyclopedia of the sciences and arts , which appeared between 1849 and 1851 in the Leipzig branch of the FA Brockhaus publishing house as a supplement to the conversation lexicon or encyclopedic concise dictionary for educated classes . The 500 plates were made in steel engraving , the work contains a total of over 12,000 illustrations. In the first part he dealt with mathematics and natural sciences and published a. a. the first scientific description of the dagger-sting pigeons ( Gallicolumba ), which he called blood-stained pigeons ( Gallicolumba cruenta , today Gallicolumba luzonica ). The second part was about geography, the third about history and ethnology, the fourth about contemporary ethnology, the fifth about warfare, the sixth about shipbuilding and marine life, the seventh about the history of architecture, and the eighth Religion and cult, in the ninth for fine arts and in the tenth for industrial science (technology). In 1851 Spencer Fullerton Baird published an English-language edition in four volumes in the United States under the title Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art .

Heck also published other maps, such as a map of London and its environs in 1851 and a map of Switzerland in 1852.

Publications

  • Atlas geographique, astronomique et historique, servant à l'intelligence de l'histoire ancienne, du moyen-age et modern . Engelmann, Paris 1830. Nouvelle édition Maillet, Paris 1842.
  • Carte physique, statistique, administrative et routière du Département du Haut-Rhin (Haute Alsace) , dressée par JG Heck, Paris 1831 ( digitized version ).
  • with Léon Plée: Atlas des familles. La France geographique, industrial et historique . Hachette, Paris 1838.
  • Picture atlas for the conversation lexicon. Iconographic encyclopedia of the sciences and the arts , designed and edited by Johann Georg Heck from the most excellent sources. In ten departments. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1849–1851.
    • Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art . Translated from the German, with additions, and edited by Spencer F. Baird . 4 volumes. Garrigue, New York 1851 ( digitized ).
  • JG Heck's latest map of London and its environs , edited by G. Heck; engraved under his direction by R. Schmidt. Weber, Leipzig 1851 ( digitized version ).
  • Illustrated travel map of Switzerland , edited by G. Heck; engraved under his direction by Reinhold Schmidt. Weber, Leipzig 1852.

literature

  • Directory of legacies. Library of Hn Johann Georg Heck, ... which is to be auctioned along with a number of good maps and atlases ... May 3, 1858 TO Weigel's Auctions locale to Leipzig ... . Leipzig 1858.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ^ Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact sciences, first volume: A – L. Barth, Leipzig 1863, p. 1043.
  3. ^ Albert M. Weiss, Engelbert Krebs: In the service of the book: Bartholomä Herder, Benjamin Herder, Hermann Herder . Herder, Freiburg 1951, p. 33; Rüdiger von Treskow: The correspondence of Karl von Rotteck (1775-1840). Vol. 2. Regesten . Ploetz, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 978-3876404288 , p. 190.
  4. ↑ Johann Georg Heck: Picture Atlas for Conversations Lexicon . First division: mathematics and natural sciences . 1849. p. 434 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Published as a supplement to Achille Pénot: Statistique Générale du Département du Haut-Rhin . Mühlhausen 1831. See Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , March 1836, pp. 321–322 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Detailed bibliographical description of the contents in Heinrich Brockhaus (Ed.): Complete list of the works published by FA Brockhaus in Leipzig . Vol. 1, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1905, pp. XLIX-XLX ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Heck, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author, lithographer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1857
Place of death Leipzig