Johann Jacob Haug (publisher)

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Catalog title page of the Haug'schen Buchhandlung (1731)

Johann Jacob Haug (* 1690 ; † May 20, 1756 in Berleburg ) was a Pietist publisher and bookseller.

Life

Johann Jacob Haug was a son of the Strasbourg printer David Haug (1647–1726) and brother of the pietistic theologian Johann Friedrich Haug (1680–1753). When Johann Friedrich had to leave Strasbourg due to his Pietist-Philadelphic convictions, Johann Jakob and his father followed him to Idstein around 1714 . In the religiously tolerant climate of Nassau-Usingen they produced Philadelphian documents. Among other things, a third and a fourth edition of Johann Henrich Reitz '" Historie der Wiedergebohrnen " were published there by Johann Jacob Haug .

1715 came into contact with inspired people , u. a. Johann Tobias Pott (1691–1759) and Johann Friedrich Rock , although the relationship seems to have remained distant. Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that Haug anonymously produced writings by the Inspired and, conversely, that the Inspired sold the Haug Verlag's writings on their journeys.

Around 1720 the Haug business became increasingly unprofitable due to competition from the orphanage printing company in Wiesbaden . In 1721 a title published by Haug appeared in Frankfurt am Main, where it apparently also failed to gain a foothold. Haug turned to Berleburg in the notorious county of Sayn-Wittgenstein -Berleburg, which is notorious as a religious sanctuary. There Haug was able to produce all kinds of prints, including heterodox documents, without restrictions and with the support of Count Casimir and his followers.

In the twenties and thirties of the 18th century, Berleburg was a center of radical pietist literature and book production with considerable charisma, sometimes even as far as North America. The most famous product of the publishing house there was the eight-volume Berleburg Bible , in the creation of which Haug's brother Johann Friedrich played no insignificant role. Two further editions of the “Historie der Wiedergebohrnen”, the pietistic journal “ Geistliche Fama ”, various translations of mystical writings, a Poiret edition in seven volumes and a complete edition of the works of Johann Konrad Dippel were also produced here .

Haug-Verlag played a central role in this process. If Johann Friedrich was the intellectual head of the company, the commercial part of the company was in the hands of Johann Jacob. A catalog of his product range has been handed down for the first time from 1729 and has been updated every six months from then on. Johann Jacob Haug never worked as a printer himself, as the older literature occasionally stated.

After Count Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg took over government in 1741, pietistic life in Berleburg largely died out. Haug stayed on site, but with his publishing house things went downhill without the previous support from the Count's House and without the pious clientele that had mostly emigrated. His last activity as a publisher dates back to 1749.

literature

In the older literature, the Haugs' personal data are often mixed up. Therefore, reference is only made to a few more recent titles, of which those Schraders should pay particular attention to:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See most recently Hans-Jürgen Schrader : Zores in Zion. Discord and resentment in Berlburg's tolerance-programmatic Philadelphia. In: From Wittgenstein into the world. Radical piety and religious tolerance (Contributions to Westphalian Church History 35), ed. by Johannes Burkardt and Bernd Hey. Bielefeld 2009, pp. 189f. with further references and sources.
  2. ↑ A largely complete compilation of the prints published by Haug can be found in Schrader, Literaturproduktion , pp. 201–221.
personal data
SURNAME Haug, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pietist publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1690
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1756
Place of death Berleburg