Johann Gottlieb Korn
Johann Gottlieb Korn (born October 4, 1765 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau , † August 23, 1837 there ) was a German bookseller and publisher.
Life
Johann Gottlieb Korn's parents were the bookseller and publisher Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn and Karoline Elisabeth born. Pfitzner, daughter of a Breslau official. From 1790 Johann Gottlieb worked in the administration of his father's publishing house , who died in 1809. Despite the competition between his printing house and the Graß & Barth publishing house , Johann Gottlieb Korn owned nine printing works in 1804 with 22 employees.
After taking over the publishing house, Johann Gottlieb continued the profile of the Korn publishing house. He published and printed mainly books and newspapers in German, including those of his grandfather Johann Jacob Korn , who founded the Schlesische Zeitung in 1742 . He maintained good relations with the Prussian authorities, but also responded to the demand for Polish publications and printed dictionaries and fiction in Polish, etc. a. Jan Kochanowski , Stanisław Trembecki and Franciszek Karpiński , as well as a Bible translated by Jakub Wujek , numerous textbooks, books for young people and prayer books in Polish.
In December 1797 Johann Gottlieb Korn married the banker's daughter Christine Dorothea Weigel (1776-1854), with whom he had the son Julius , who worked in the publishing house from 1829. Johann Gottlieb Korn was the grandfather of Heinrich von Korn (Prussian nobility 1882) and Berta Elisabeth von Schroeter . The second son Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (1808–1877) was ennobled in 1866.
Publications of the Johann Gottlieb Korn publishing house (selection)
- David Joachim Friedländer: Attempt to solve the Stollian problem . Wroclaw 1797
- Christian Garve: Overview of the noblest principles of moral doctrine, from the age of Aristotle up to our times: A treatise belonging to the first part of the translated ethics of Aristotle and specially printed from it . Wroclaw 1798
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm August father: Prussian-Silesian Civil, Medicinal and Sanitary Constitution . Breslau 1800, two volumes
- John Quincy Adams : Letters on Silesia: written on a journey through this country in 1800 . Breslau 1805, publisher Johann Gottfried Korn
- August Heimbert Hinze: Altwasser and its healing springs . Wroclaw 1805
literature
- Adalbert Brauer: Korn, Johann Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 587 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Schmilewski: Published by Korn in Breslau: a brief history of an important publisher from 1732 until today . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-87057-140-3 , p. 32 .
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1908, second year, p.597
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
- ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , ninth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1915, p. 498 [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korn, Johann Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1837 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |