Johannes Rohner
Johannes Rohner (born May 11, 1810 in Wolfhalden ; † July 23, 1857 in Evansville ) was a Swiss printer, publisher and editor.
Life
After training as a baker , miller and working as a model engraver , Rohner worked in the printing and publishing industry. In 1835 he married the farmer's daughter Wibertha Tobler, himself the son of a farmer and former slave. From 1835 to 1836 Rohner ran a printing company in Heiden and from 1836 to 1846 one in Altstätten . From 1835 to 1836 he was editor of the magazine Der Hochwächter am Säntis , from 1836 to 1838 editor of the monthly newspaper for Heiden , in 1836 of the New Appenzell Calendar , for which he engraved the woodcuts himself, and from 1836 of the Bote in the Rhine Valley .
During the constitutional movement in Appenzell Ausserrhoden , Rohner published pamphlets on political issues. “In the absence of success in his undertakings, he emigrated with his family and his sister-in-law to the United States in 1846 , where he worked as a printer and publisher and settled first in New Orleans , later in Louisville and in 1850 in Evansville . There he published the radical democratic papers Bote am Ohio and from 1850 [the] Evansville Volksbote ”.
literature
- Walter Schläpfer: Press history of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Herisau 1978, pp. 58-60, p. 76.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Thomas Fuchs: Rohner, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohner, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolf heaps |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1857 |
| Place of death | Evansville, Indiana |