Johann Heinrich Hartung

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Hartung's book catalog, 1746

Johann Heinrich Hartung (born August 17, 1699 in Erfurt , † May 5, 1756 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher and printer owner in Königsberg in Prussia .

Life

As the son of the organ builder and instrument maker Heinrich Hartung, Hartung completed an apprenticeship as a printer with David Limprecht in Erfurt. After working as an assistant in Leipzig from 1718 and visiting several book printing companies in Upper Saxony , he went to Hamburg and Königsberg. There he began to work for Johann Stelter on May 7, 1727 . On February 2, 1731 he married his daughter Christine. In 1751 Hartung bought the Reussner printing works for 16,333 thalers and 10 silver groschen. Hartung died at the Leipzig trade fair .

Book printing and book trade

The Estates of Livonia and Courland gave him the printing of the Latvian Bible and the Curonian postil. In May 1738 he was granted special permission to print and exclusively publish the Polish Bible , the Polish New Testament and Hymnbook and Rogall's Hymnbook. All of the school books for the Collegium Fridericianum were printed by him.

In 1738 he turned to the book trade and bought the business of the bookseller Christoph Gottfried Eckart. In the same year he published the first publisher's catalog with over 400 pages. He also set up a branch in Leipzig and had an open vault there during the fair.

On July 23, 1751, Hartung bought the Hof- und Akademische Buchdruckerei in Königsberg, which significantly increased his business and influence. A year later he took over the production of their printed matter for the Albertus University . In Hartung's 22 publishing years, 194 books were published.

Hartung Newspaper

In 1742 Hartung took over the intelligence paper from Johann Friedrich Reussner and renamed it the Königl in 1752 . Privilege. Pr. State, War and Peace Newspaper . The newspaper remained in the possession of the Hartung family. Affiliated with the DDP in the 20th century , the Hartungsche Zeitung was also highly regarded beyond East Prussia until the end of 1945 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartung, family (zeno.org)
  2. ↑ Core of old and new songs (Königsberg 1731)
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and printer owner
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1756
Place of death Leipzig