Johann Leonhard Schrag

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Johann Leonhard Schrag (born January 27, 1783 in Landshut , † April 30, 1858 in Nuremberg ) was a German bookseller and publisher.

Life

Schrag learned his trade in the Krüll University bookstore in Landshut. He then ran a bookstore in Vienna. When the Danube metropolis was occupied by Napoleon , Schrag took over the Steinsche Buchhandlung in Nuremberg (owner: Johann Philipp Palm ). In 1810 he founded his Schragsche publishing bookstore in Nuremberg.

Schrag published both science and fiction.

Natural sciences: Johann Andreas Buchner , Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Jean-Baptiste Dumas , August Goldfuß , Franz von Kobell , Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger .

Humanities: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Karl Friedrich Nägelsbach .

Fiction: Jean Paul , Joseph von Eichendorff , Adelbert von Chamisso , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , Friedrich Rückert .

The publisher became popular, among other things, through the periodical "Frauentaschenbuch", to which, for example, Arnim contributed along with other well-known contemporary authors. In 1857 Friedrich Brandstetter from Leipzig took over the publishing house, and from then on the Nuremberg Art Publishing House was headed by his son Heinrich Schrag.

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