Joseph Engelmann

Joseph Engelmann (born May 28, 1783 in Bacherach ; † September 13, 1845 in Wachenheim ) was a German publisher and bookseller.

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Joseph Engelmann was the son of Erasmus Theodor Engelmann (1730-1802), a Reformed inspector, and Anna Margaretha Hartmann (1742-1825). One of his brothers was Julius Bernhard Engelmann (1773-1844), the father of George Engelmann . His nephew was Theodor Erasmus Hilgard .

Joseph Engelmann probably received his training in Frankfurt am Main . When Jakob Christian Benjamin Mohr (1778–1854) and Johann Georg Zimmer (1777–1853) founded the Mohr & Zimmer publishing house in Heidelberg in 1805 , Joseph Engelmann moved to Heidelberg and took over the management of the printing company. On June 9, 1807, Grand Duke Karl Friedrich gave the publishing house the privilege to set up and manage a printing works in Heidelberg, which was followed on June 22, 1807 by the privilege of adding a printing works to the publishing house. The publisher finally transferred the printing privilege to Joseph Engelmann on February 25, 1808. One of the first works he printed was a volume from the Des Knaben Wunderhorn collection .

From 1812 Joseph Engelmann built up his own publishing house that published travel and art books. On July 24, 1816, he married Friedrike Tenner (* 1796) in Grünstadt . Due to illness, Joseph Engelmann had to give up his publishing house in 1839. His bookstore was taken over in 1844 by Friedrich Fabel from Karlsruhe.

literature

• Albert Carlebach: Joseph Engelmann. Printer and bookseller in Heidelberg, “the printer of the Heidelberg Romanticism” 1807–1828. In: Ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Badisch-Palatinate Booksellers Association. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1925, pp. 197-222.
• Friedrich Strack (ed.): Heidelberg in the secular upheaval (= German idealism. Vol. 12). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-608-91445-5 , pp. 130-137.

Web links

• Josef Engelmann at the Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV