Johann Wilhelm Mauke
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Mauke (born September 24, 1791 in Schleiz , † August 19, 1859 in Hamburg ) was a German publishing house bookseller .
Life
Wilhelm Mauke was born in Schleiz on September 24, 1791, the youngest son of the High Counts' court printer, Johann Gottlieb Maucke and Johanne Karoline Rudolph. From Easter 1805 he did an apprenticeship in the Reinschen bookstore in Leipzig. Wilhelm joined Friedrich Perthes ' bookstore in Hamburg as an assistant in October 1811 - at a time when the city had already been an integral part of the French Empire for a few months. Together with the company owner, Mauke took an active part in the fight against the French within the " Hanseatic Legion " in 1813/14 , while the main burden of the business fell to his partner Johann Heinrich Besser . Alongside him, Mauke developed into the bookstore's mainstay in the years that followed.
After the death of his first wife on August 28, 1821, Perthes made Wilhelm Mauke his partner .
When Perthes left the bookstore in early 1822 to devote himself exclusively to publishing in Gotha, he remained a silent partner in the company "Perthes & Besser".
On December 1, 1823, Wilhelm Mauke and Besser's daughter Auguste Wilhelmine Charlotte (* August 8, 1806, † August 11, 1860) married.
After the war losses, the business quickly rose to become one of the most respected in Hamburg and allowed the publishing of new works, which, however, were often initiated by Perthes. This changed after Besser's death (1826): Mauke was now the sole responsible owner until the entry of his brother-in-law Rudolf Besser (1836) and increasingly concentrated on the publishing of writings on Hamburg-specific topics, such as the "Lexicon of Hamburg writers" (1851 -83). After Besser's sons had come of age and completed their education, Perthes finally gave up his de jure partnership in 1836. Mauke and his brothers-in-law paid Perthes out in the following years and from then on operated under the name "Perthes, Besser & Mauke".
The town fire of 1842 caused great material losses , in which both the office building and the 80,000-volume book store were destroyed. Even after that, the business remained an important point of contact for the upper classes of Hamburg's readers and in 1854, after Rudolf Besser (1811–1883) left the company, it was completely owned by the Mauke family. The eldest son, Carl Wilhelm Alfred Mauke (1824–1871), who had been an assistant in the company since 1843, became the new partner and after the deaths of Wilhelm Mauke (1859) and Wilhelmine nee. Besser (1860) sole head of the bookstore. On August 1, 1865, the brother, Friedrich Wilhelm Mauke (1835–1908) joined as a partner. It traded as "W. Mauke Söhne" since 1865 and is now part of the Schweitzer legal specialist book chain.
In the area of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the publisher and printer's collective grave commemorates Heinrich Wilhelm Mauke (together with Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann , August Campe , Johann Heinrich Besser, among others ).
literature
- Franz R. Bertheau: History of the bookstore W. Mauke Sons , Hamburg 1921.
- Dirk Moldenhauer: History as a commodity. The publisher FC Perthes (1772-1843) pioneered modern historiography . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2008 ISBN 3-412-12706-X (dissertation)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mauke, Johann Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mauke, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1859 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |