Joseph Rütten

Joseph Rütten. Lithograph around 1850

Joseph Rütten (until September 1, 1842 Jacob Beer Rindskopf ) (born December 22, 1805 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 19, 1878 there ) was a German publisher .

Life

Jacob Beer Rindskopf was the son of the banker Jekel (Jacob) Beer Rindskopf (* 1770, † 1842) and Jette, b. Well , and was born in the Rindskopf house on Frankfurt's Judengasse . He was with his father in the trade for training and on May 12, 1842 was admitted to the "Israelite citizen oath". On April 8, 1834, he applied to be allowed to change his name, which was approved in 1842.

On July 1, 1844, he and Zacharias Loewenthal founded the literary institution (J. Rütten) , from which the Rütten & Loening publishing house was to emerge on April 26, 1859 . Heinrich Hoffmanns Struwwelpeter (1845) was the first big success of the new publishing house . In the same year he also published the first book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , The Holy Family . Other important works were Börne's works and the complete edition of Karl Gutzkow's works .

Rütten was a member of the Frankfurt legislative body (1858 to 1866), the "51er Kolleg", the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce , the Israelite school administration and board member of the Israelite community in Frankfurt am Main as well as the school council of the Philanthropin .

On June 21, 1878, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Rat-Beil-Strasse , Block IV.

Archives and letters

Joseph Rütten to Berthold Auerbach , October 28, 1854, German Literature Archive Marbach , handwriting department Signature: Auerbach
Joseph Rütten to Julius Campe . Five letters, 1861, Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf. Signature: Campe estate
Joseph Rütten to Lorenz Diefenbach , May 3, 1871, Giessen University Library. Signature: Diefenbach estate
Joseph Rütten to Karl Gutzkow , October 28, 1854, Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt a. M. Signature: Nachlass Gutzkow A 2 II
Joseph Rütten to Heinrich Hotop. Three letters, 1861, Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf. Signature: Campe estate
Joseph Rütten and Zacharias Loewenthal to Karl Marx, December 3, 1844
Julius Campe to Joseph Rütten. Three copies of letters, 1861, Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf. Signature: Campe estate, letters: Rütten & Löning
Lorenz Oken to Joseph Rütten. A letter dated November 2, 1843, Berlin State Library, manuscript department. Signature: Darmstaedter Collection Lc 1809: Oken, Lorenz
Institute for Urban History , Frankfurt a. M. Signature: Personal history collection S2: 1.230

literature

Rudolf Jung : Rütten, Joseph Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 657.
Alfred Frommhold: One hundred and ten years of publishing house Rütten & Loening Berlin. 1844 to 1954 . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1954.
One hundred and twenty-five years of Rütten & Loening 1844–1969. An almanac. Overall editor Jürgen Jahn . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1969.
Paul Arnsberg : Rütten, Joseph . In: The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution . Volume III. Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-7929-0130-7 , pp. 407-408.
Reinhard Frost: Rütten . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 225.
Carsten Wurm: Rütten, Joseph Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hans Adler (ed.): Literary secret reports. Protocols of Metternich -Agenten. Vol. II 1844-1848 . information press cw leske, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-434-00354-1 , pp. 58, 120, 147, 158.
Carsten Wurm: 150 years of Rütten & Loening. ... More than a publishing history . Rütten & Loening Berlin GmbH, Berlin 1994.
Hans-Otto Schembs : Jewish patrons and donors in Frankfurt am Main . Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-7829-0566-4 , pp. 128–129.

Web links

History of the publishing house Rütten & Loening
Books from the publishing house Rütten & Loening HeBIS union catalog
Rütten, Joseph Jacob. Hessian biography. (As of June 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Rütten, Joseph in the Frankfurt personal dictionary

Individual evidence

^ Paul Arnsberg, p. 407.
↑ Facsimile of the notification of establishment in: One hundred and twenty-five years of Rütten & Loening 1844–1969. An almanac , p. 21.
^ Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.
^ Ludwig Börne: Menzel, the French eater . 3rd, legal issue. Literary Institute (J. Rütten), Frankfurt am Main 1848.
^ Karl Gutzkow: Collected works . 12 vol. Literary Institution (J. Rütten.), Frankfurt am Main 1845–1852.
^ Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.
^ Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.
↑ Wolfgang Mönke : The Holy Family. On the first joint work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 160.
↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III, Volume 1, p. 446.

personal data
SURNAME	Rütten, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rindskopf, Jacob Beer (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher and patron
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1878
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Paul Arnsberg, p. 407.

[2] Facsimile of the notification of establishment in: One hundred and twenty-five years of Rütten & Loening 1844–1969. An almanac , p. 21.

[3] Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.

[4] Ludwig Börne: Menzel, the French eater . 3rd, legal issue. Literary Institute (J. Rütten), Frankfurt am Main 1848.

[5] Karl Gutzkow: Collected works . 12 vol. Literary Institution (J. Rütten.), Frankfurt am Main 1845–1852.

[6] Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.

[7] Paul Arnsberg, p. 408.

[8] Wolfgang Mönke : The Holy Family. On the first joint work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 160.

[9] Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III, Volume 1, p. 446.