Johann Samuel Gerlach

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Johann Samuel Gerlach (* before 1762 in Dresden , † after 1799) was a German bookseller and publisher .

Life

Johann Samuel Gerlach was the son of the bookseller and publisher Johann Nikolaus Gerlach , who worked in Dresden . In 1762 he became a partner in his father's company, which has operated under the name Johann Nikolaus Gerlach & Son since and until after the death of his father , and then as Johann Nikolaus Gerlach Widow & Son from 1769 . The family business was sometimes referred to as the Gerlachische Buchhandlung , Gerlachsche Schriften or Gerlachsche Buchhandlung .

From 1779 Johann Samuel Gerlach ran the Dresden retail bookstore under his own name for more than two decades until 1799. He married the widow Ronnenberg and became the stepfather of the trained bookbinder and later writer Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg , whom he also trained as a bookseller in his company around the beginning of the 1790s.

One of the writings published by Johann Samuel Gerlach's publishing house is the work The connection and arrangement of the columns, published in 1783 by the electoral Saxon architect of the late Dresden Baroque era, Samuel Locke , and illustrated with 60 copper engravings ...

Together with a colleague, the Dresden publishing house bookseller Paul Christian Hilscher , Gerlach complained on April 24, 1795 that the book trade in the royal seat of Dresden was threatened by "the reading libraries set up by so many private individuals without authorization and rights ".

Publishing works (selection)

  • Illustration of the electoral Saxon army uniforms. Electoral Saxon Army Uniforms , monograph with 31 sheets exclusively with illustrations, Dresden: Gerlach, 1789
  • Samuel Locke: The connection and juxtaposition of the columns, or instruction how, in architecture, the five column orders are to be placed on top of each other and connected in a very easy and convenient way, according to a well-founded rule, both with straight and circular figures. The connection and arrangement of the columns in three sections and presented on 60 copper sheets , 164 pages, LX sheets panels, Dresden: "by the author, and in commission by Johann Samuel Gerlach", 1783; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ David L. Paisey : Gerlach, Johann Nikolaus , in ibid .: German printers, booksellers and publishers 1701-1750 (= contributions to science and librarianship. Volume 26), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988, ISBN 978-3-447- 02825-7 and ISBN 3-447-02825-4 , p. 76; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Johann Rudolf Füssli : Ronnenberg (Joh. Gottlieb Ferdinand) , in ders .: General Artist Lexicon, or: Brief message from the life and works of the Mahler, sculptor, master builder, copper engraver, art caster, steel cutter, [et] c. [Etc. Along with attached lists of teachers and students; also of the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon , part 2, section 6: R , Orell, Füeßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1812, pp. 1335–1336; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Information on the gateway-bayern.de page
  5. ↑ Dirk Sangmeister: The Linckesche Lending Library in Leipzig , in Björn Biester, Carsten Wurm (Red.): Archive for the history of the book , Volume 72, ed. from the Historical Commission of the German Book Trade eV, Berlin; Munich; Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052640-0 and e- ISBN 978-3-11-052849-7 and ePub 978-3-11-052649-3 and ISSN 0066-6327, p 23-128; here: p. 31; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ in the holdings of the Augsburg University Library
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Johann Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and Dresden publisher
DATE OF BIRTH before 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH after 1799