Johann Georg Klemm

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Johann Georg Klemm (* uncertain: 1666; † January 1, 1737 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German publisher .

Live and act

Nothing is known about Klemm's training and his first years of employment. On July 1, 1729, he acquired the privilege of founding a bookstore in Halle. He then ran a bookstore and a publisher on Halle's market square. His later successor, Carl Hermann Hemmerde , joined the business as an assistant and on June 4, 1737 married Johanne Regina Klemm, the daughter of his principal. Klemm died on January 1, 1737.

Johann Georg Klemm was the founder of CA Schwetschke & Sohn . He published a total of 19 works. So he published z. B. the first German translation of François Fénelon's conversations of eloquence (1734, with a preface by Carl Heinrich Theune , a teacher at the Francke Foundations) and Johann Lorenz Fleischer's Institutiones juris naturae et gentium (1730, with an author dedication to Prince Leopold von Anhalt -Dessau ).

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Kertscher : Halle publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 978-3-929-88726-6
  • Erich Neuss : Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 21f. mw pers.
  2. ↑ Cf. Erich Neuß: Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933 . Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933, p. 77 mw Nachw.
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1666
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1737
Place of death Halle (Saale)