Joseph Heinrich Coppenrath

Joseph Heinrich Coppenrath (born March 4, 1764 in Millingen ; † October 28, 1853 in Münster ) was a German bookseller , publisher and manufacturer .

Life

Joseph Heinrich's family came from the Hochsauerland ( Dorlar ). His parents were Ferdinand Benedikt Coppenrath (* 1724 Dingden ; † 1809 Millingen), an electoral civil servant, and Clara Piepers (* Bocholt ; † 1781 Millingen). He was also a great-nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm Coppenrath († 1792), electoral court clerk and palace administrator in Münster and editor of the court and address calendar of the Münster monastery from around 1776–1785. The Friedrich Wilhelm family was wealthy and owned an estate in Greffen. Both families were in familiar contact, so that at the instigation of his great-uncle he moved from Millingen to Münster. He lived in the house (which he later bought) of the widow Jansen, née Platvoet, on Königsstrasse and studied law. He was first procurator and notary (1789) at the city court, then procurator in the Perrenonsche Hofbuchhandlung in Münster.

family

Around 1786 he married Elisabeth Dohle († 1823). The couple had seven children.

• The eldest daughter Josephine Coppenrath was the mother of
  • Ferdinand Schöningh , bookseller and publisher
  • Eduard Schöningh , Mayor of Meppen and officer of the German Reichsflotte and the naval artillery of the Imperial and Royal Navy
• One nephew was Ludwig Coppenrath, dean in Millingen and honorary canon of Münster .
• Other grandchildren were:
  • Alfred Coppenrath (1830-1887). In 1855 he founded a music publisher of the same name in Regensburg.
  • Clemens Coppenrath (June 1, 1839 - March 17, 1864), the helmsman of the corvette SMS Arcona , who was one of the first soldiers of the Prussian Navy to be killed in the sea ​​battle near Jasmund .
• Pastor Albert Coppenrath was a great-grandson .
• His great-great-grandchildren were the Archbishops Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath and Hubert Coppenrath .

Act

In addition to working for the city court, he also continued to run his great-uncle's small bookstore on Königsstrasse in Münster. After buying the neighboring houses (from the widow Wolter, née Perrenon) and expanding them in Königsstraße, he started a printing shop there (later in Lütgengasse) and founded the Coppenrath publishing house in 1786. Here he later published the Westphalian Merkur (owned by the family from 1822 to 1865). On his trade trips (including to Paris and Brussels) he learned the French and Dutch languages. After the French Revolution, he organized the money and banking business, for example for the immigrated French nobility.

In 1803 he took over the Perrenonsche Hofbuchhandlung founded in 1768 by Philipp Heinrich Perrenon . This was owned by the brothers Franz and Anton Platvoet from 1798 to 1803. He renamed it Coppenrath'sche Kunst und Buchhandlung . He also set up branches in Hamm and Witten . Around 1809 he acquired the corner house at Prizipalmarkt 28 and also expanded it into a bookstore. This business existed there until the middle of the 20th century. Today the university bookstore Coppenrath & Boeser and the Coppenrath Verlag under the direction (from 1977) of Wolfgang Hölker still exist in Münster under the name Coppenrath .

He pursued his passion for agriculture by purchasing the Tegeland estate near Bocholt. In St. Mauritz near Munster, he bought heathland and made it arable. He also built a small brick factory here and built the Coppenrath manor house, which was demolished in 1920. He also operated a fulling mill with spinning mill and cloth factory in Bruch near Recklinghausen. At the end of his life, in addition to the possessions, he had a fortune of 25,000 Reichstalers. Three of his sons (Joseph, Heinrich and Franz) continued to run the publishing house and book trade.

literature

• Ferdinand Coppenrath: History of the Cobbenrod-Coppenrath family . F. Coppenrath, Munich 1929, OCLC 865602500 .
• Samuel Hahnemann, Martin Stahl, Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen: The correspondence between Samuel Hahnemann and Clemens von Bönninghausen . Georg Thieme Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-7760-1632-9 , p. 165 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

• Dr. W. Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hahnemann, Stahl, Bönninghausen: The correspondence between Samuel Hahnemann and Clemens von Bönninghausen. 1997, p. 165.
2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Coppenrath. (PDF) In: Court and address calendar of the Hochstift Münster. 1785. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Ferdinand Florenz Coppenrath. (PDF) In: Gesch. of the Cobbenrod - Coppenrath family. 1929. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
4. ↑ Musikverlag Alfred Coppenrath ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Peter PE Günther, 1978 In: Name register of the dead of the Prussian Army and Navy in the German-Danish War 1864 .
6. ↑ Westphalian Mercury. In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 562.
7. ^ Perrenon, Philipp Heinrich in VD 18 .
8. ↑ Münster: Platvoet, 1800
9. ↑ University bookstore Coppenrath & Boeser ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Coppenrathsweg. wiki.muenster.org