Joseph Friedrich Bergmann

Joseph Friedrich Bergmann (born November 23, 1849 , † August 22, 1917 ) was a German publisher, especially for medical literature (Verlag JF Bergmann in Wiesbaden).

Bergmann founded his publishing house in 1878, taking over the medicine division from his father's friend Christian Wilhelm Kreidel and, after his death in 1890, also the remainder of Kreidel's publishing house with the natural science and technology divisions (including the journal for analytical chemistry ) and continued to operate them under his name .

In 1914 he took his nephew Wilhelm Geck in as a partner and retired due to illness. Before that, he agreed with his friend Fritz Springer that the Springer- Verlag would take over his shares in the publishing house after his death (and in 1923 they also took over Geck's shares). Since Bergmann had a very extensive and respected medicine program, that was the beginning of the corresponding focus at Springer. In 1920 the publishing house was moved from Wiesbaden to Munich. It existed as an imprint of the Springer Verlag until 1989.

From Kreidel he took over the archive for ophthalmology and ear medicine , which he soon divided into the archive for ophthalmology and the journal for ear medicine . In 1882 he drew the reports of the Congress for Internal Medicine, which met annually in Wiesbaden, to the publisher. This gave him many contacts with doctors, especially internists. A bestseller of the publisher was the paperback of medical-clinical diagnostics by Otto Seifert and Friedrich Müller , first published in 1886. From 1892 the series of results appeared on various areas of medicine.

literature

• Heinz Sarkowski: The Springer publishing house. Stations in its history, Springer 1992, Volume 1, p. 234

Web links

• Rainer Stumpe, history of the quarterly journal on the advances in the chemistry of food and beverages , with a short biography of Bergmann