Johann Lorenz Greiner

Johann Lorenz Greiner (born September 21, 1781 in Graz ; † January 13, 1841 there ) was an Austrian book and art dealer.

Life

Johann Lorenz Greiner was the son of an Austrian engineer officer who had taken over a mission to Poland under the government of Emperor Joseph II , but who died soon after his arrival there. The Graz bookseller Franz Ferstl met Greiner, who was then four years old, at a school man in Hitzendorf , who had married the officer's widow, and adopted him because his marriage had remained childless. Greiner received a careful upbringing and from 1794 attended grammar school and from 1800 the lyceum in Graz. After completing his studies, he received a master's degree in philosophy .

In 1802 Greiner joined the Ferstl bookstore (founded as a branch in Augsburg by M. Veih and M. Rieger in 1690 ). He worked in this business - with the exception of 1806, during which time he worked with Göbhard in Bamberg - until the end of his life. On September 6, 1808, he married Josephine Drasenberger, the daughter of a reputable Graz trading company. During the French invasion of 1809, as an officer in the Graz Citizens Corps, he made special contributions to the citizens of his hometown, so that he was generally respected.

After Franz Ferstl's death on December 3, 1821, Greiner continued to run his bookstore. Through diligence and care, he made it a flourishing company. He was anxious to expand his business and connected it to an art and music store. In 1823 this brought out a quarterly musical flower harvest by the Styrian Music Association and later several individual prints. Greiner was also always ready to support all public companies and non-profit institutions as much as possible. In the summer of 1840 he suffered a painful illness, to which he succumbed on January 13, 1841 at the age of 59. In addition to his wife, he left two sons and three daughters.

literature

• Ph. H. Külb: Greiner (Johann Lorenz) . In: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 1st section, vol. 90 (1871), p. 118.
• Johann Lorenz Greiner , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 19th year, 1st part, Weimar 1843, p. 69 f.
• Rudolf Flotzinger : Greiner, Johann Lorenz. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .