Johann Schickh

Johann Schickh, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1835

Johann Valentin Schickh (born January 6, 1770 in Vienna , † August 1, 1835 in Bad Gastein ) was an Austrian textile merchant and journalist .

Life

Schickh was the son of an official of the kk Linz wool, cloth and carpet factory and became a successful textile manufacturer himself. In 1814 he founded the white and haberdashery store “Zu den drey Graces” in Vienna. He was best known as the editor of the popular Wiener Moden-Zeitung , which he founded in Vienna in 1816 together with Wilhelm Hebenstreit . It was renamed the Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion in 1817 and soon established itself - alongside Adolf Bäuerle's Wiener Theaterzeitung - as one of the most important cultural journals in the Austrian metropolis. Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven in particular were mentioned frequently. Schickh was also close friends with Beethoven; his name appears several times in the composer's conversation books . Some of his works even appeared for the first time in Schickh's magazine, as did works by Franz Schubert.

Schickh was editor of the Wiener Zeitschrift until his death . His successor was Friedrich Witthauer .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schickh, Johann (in the article of his nephew) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 266–268 ( digitized version ).
• Anton Schlossar , The "Wiener Zeitschrift" by J. Schickh and F. Witthauer . A contribution to the history of Austrian journalism in the pre-March period , in: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde , vol. 5 (1901/1902), pp. 464–479.
• Clemens Höslinger , music index for the “Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion”, 1816–1848 , Munich-Salzburg: Katzbichler 1980.
• E. Lebensaft:  Schickh, Johann Valentin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 108 f. (Direct links on p. 108 , p. 109 ).