Julius Campe

Julius Campe

Julius Johann Wilhelm Campe (born February 18, 1792 in Deensen , † November 14, 1867 in Hamburg ), nephew of Joachim Heinrich Campe , was a German publisher . He came from a publishing dynasty and took over the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house in Hamburg in 1823 .

biography

Tomb of the Julius Campe family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Campe went to the publishing bookstore of his half-brother August Campe (1772-1836) and at other publishers in the apprenticeship and then took part in the Wars of Liberation . In 1816 he left the Prussian and Brunswick military service and returned to “ Hoffmann & Campe ” in Hamburg after a two-year trip to Italy .

In 1823 he took over the management of the publishing house, which he expanded  into a center for opposition literature from the “ Metternich era ”, especially since his acquaintance with Heinrich Heine . Despite the rigid censorship measures , which culminated in 1841 with the prohibition of the entire production of his publishing house in Prussia , he managed to successfully publish the works of the authors of Junge Deutschland . The song of the Germans , by Hoffmann von Fallersleben , was first published by Campe in 1841.

Campe was best known as the publisher of Heinrich Heine , but also of Karl Immermann , Ernst Raupach , Ludwig Börne and Friedrich Hebbel , Ludolf Wienbarg and Karl Gutzkow . He developed particular skills in dealing with censorship.

Julius Campe died on November 14, 1867 in Hamburg and was initially buried there in the St. Petri cemetery. He was later given a burial place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in front of a tomb built on the basis of a will of his son Julius Heinrich Wilhelm Campe .

The Julius Campe Prize is named after him.

Works (selection)

• Twenty-three letters from, to and about Heine: Heine and Campe . Society of Bibliophiles. G. Müller, Munich, Leipzig 1913.
• Schiller's political legacy: a side piece to Börne's letters from Paris . 2nd edition, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1832. Also: Photomechanical reprint 1962.

literature

• Carl Brinitzer : The contentious life of the publisher Julius Campe . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1962.
• Gert Ueding : Hoffmann and Campe: a German publisher . Hamburg 1981. ISBN 3-455-07800-1 .
• Gerhard Höhn and Christian Liedtke (eds.): "The way from your heart to your pocket is very long." From the correspondence between Heinrich Heine and his publisher Julius Campe . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-40043-4 .
• Edda Ziegler: Julius Campe: the publisher Heinrich Heines . Hamburg 1976. ISBN 3-455-09904-1 (also: Dissertation of the University of Munich, 1975).
• Karl Balser:  Campe, Johann Julius Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 111 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Sillem:  Campe, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 424 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Campe in the catalog of the German National Library