John Holroyd-Reece

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John Holroyd-Reece (born April 30, 1897 in Munich , † March 7, 1969 ) was a British publisher, diplomat and translator.

Life

John Holroyd-Reece (actually Johann Hermann Rieß) was born the son of a private scholar. The son's name Anglicized ("Holroyd-Reece, which patronym was corrupted from the original Teutonic Riesz"). The mother was an Englishwoman who grew up in the Netherlands . He was at the private schools Stancliffe Hall, Matlock, Repton and the King's College of the University of Cambridge trained.

After the outbreak of World War I , Holroyd-Reece was stationed in Egypt from 1915 to 1919 as a member of the Dorset Yeomanry, 5th Cavalry Brigade and 5th Cavalry Division. In 1918, Holroyd-Reece was appointed military governor of Zahl and Moallaka . In 1920 he became the official collotype expert at the first international arbitration tribunal.

At the end of 1924, Holroyd-Reece was involved in founding the art history publisher Pantheon (Pantheon Casa Editrice) in Florence. In 1927 he founded the publishing house Pegasus Press, based in Paris . Since 1930, this published the Albatross Continental Library, which specialized in English-language books to market on the European continent. The German branch of the company was based in Hamburg . During this time, Holroyd-Reece developed a new book format that roughly corresponds to today's paperbacks - in its dimensions it was slightly higher and therefore less wide than the previously common book formats. In October 1934, Holroyd-Reece took over the Tauchnitz publishing house in Leipzig, which was competing with Pegasus. After the Second World War, Holroyd-Reece devoted himself to rebuilding his publishing houses.

Victor Gollancz described Holroyd-Reece in 1968 as "one of the outstanding geniuses of our time". Another observer called him a " swashbuckling " businessman.

Works as a translator

  • Gyula Andrássy: Diplomacy and the War , 1921.
  • Julius Meier-Graefe: Degas , 1923.
  • Julius Meier-Graefe: The Spanish Journey , 1927.
  • Julius Meier Graefe: Vincent Van Gogh. A Biographical Study , 1933.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graham Watson: Book Society , 1980, p. 94.
  2. ^ Europa Publications Limited: The International Who's Who , 1968, p. 380.
  3. ^ Victor Gollancz: Reminiscences of Affection , 1968, p. 53.
  4. ^ Notes and Queries, 1991, p. 265.
personal data
SURNAME Holroyd-Reece, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British publisher, diplomat and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1969