Johann Karl Spener

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Johann Carl Spener ( December 7, 1710 - August 19, 1756 ) was a German publisher .

Life

Spener was the grandson of the Lutheran theologian and Pietist Philipp Jakob Spener and the son of the Berlin senator and pharmacist Philipp Reinhardt.

In 1739 Spener acquired Gottfried Gedicke's bookstore. With his brother-in-law Ambrosius Haude , he carried out individual publishing projects as early as 1745, for example the publication of the smaller writings of the mathematician Leonhard Euler and the publication of Frederick II . "Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des années 1744 et 1745". In 1748 Spener joined the publishing house of her late husband Ambroisus Haude as a partner at the side of his sister , who was now named Haude and Spener .

In 1748 Spener married Sophie Helene Würful (1728–1799). The two sons Johann Carl Philipp and Christian Sigismund emerged from the marriage.

literature

  • Proud past, living present. 325 years of Haude & Spenersche bookstore in Berlin; 1614–1939 , Berlin: Haude & Spener 1939, pp. 47–49.
personal data
SURNAME Spener, Johann Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spener, Johann Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1710
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1756