Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg

Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg (* before 1791 in Einbeck ; † after 1812) was a German bookseller as well as a writer and translator .

Life

Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg was born in Einbeck during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

After initially learning the art of bookbinding and then continuing his academic studies, he then went to Dresden , where he began training as a bookseller with his stepfather, the publisher and bookseller Johann Samuel Gerlach . In addition to stays in Stendal , Gießen and Leipzig , he stayed in Dresden until 1793. During this period he translated several works from English and French.

At the end of the 18th century, he published a uniform book , unique for its time, published in Hanover and Leipzig and illustrated with five-color illustrations, entitled Illustrations of the Chur-Hanoverian Armée Uniforms . He provided the work with 34 of his own drawings, which Knötel then reproduced as colored copper engravings . In addition, the volume received short treatises on the history of the individual regiments and the names of the commanding personnel with associated data. The original of the written and pictorial works held in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library appeared in 1979 as a facsimile- like reprint in the Schlüterschen publishing house and printing house with an afterword, explanations and detailed historical descriptions by Alheidis von Rohr .

In 1796 Ronnenberg went to Basel and deepened his knowledge of the book trade in Mechelen and Thurneisen. He then wanted to go to Paris , but - as a Hanoverian - did not receive a passport for France. As a result, he crossed over to England from Cuxhaven .

Towards the end of the 18th century, Ronnenberg took a sailing ship to the island of Barbados in what was then the British West Indies , where he lived in 1798.

At the beginning of the 19th century he published his work Kur-Sächsische Army-Uniforms , which only appeared at 31 and 1802 with 33 colored copper engravings, for which he and “H. Gerlach ”had drawn the patterns, to which“ JE Held contributed the figures and vignettes ”.

Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg also wrote some anonymously published novels .

Fonts (selection)

• Illustration of the Chur-Hanoverian army uniforms. Brief history of the Churhanoverian troops to explain the illuminated illustrations of the army uniforms , unaltered reprint of the Hanover and Leipzig edition, 1791, with an afterword by Alheidis von Rohr, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 3-87706-177-X
• The village of Martinsthal, a historical novella , translated from The Village of Martinstal , 1797

literature

• Johann Rudolf Füssli : Ronnenberg (Joh. Gottlieb Ferdinand) , in this: General Artist Lexicon, or: Brief message about the life and works of the Mahler, sculptor, builder, copper engraver, art caster, steel cutter, [et] c. [Etc. Along with attached lists of teachers and students; also of the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon , part 2, section 6: R , Orell, Füeßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1812, pp. 1335–1336; Digitized via Google books

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Johann Samuelansch (Hrsg.), Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner (arrangement): Ronnenberg (Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand) , in: The learned Teutschland, or: Lexicon of the German writers now living , starting with Georg Christoph Hamberger , continued by Johann Georg Meusel , Volume 19, 5th, increased and improved edition, Lemgo: Verlag der Meyer'schen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1823, p. 415; Digitized via Google books
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Johann Rudolf Füssli: Ronnenberg (Joh. Gottlieb Ferdinand) , in ders .: General Artist Lexicon ... , Part 2, Section 6: R , Orell ,, Füeßli und Compagnie, Zurich 1812, p. 1335 -1336; Digitized via Google books
3. ↑ ^{a b} Imprint and cover text for the 1979 reprint