Julius Friedländer (publisher)

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Julius Carl Friedländer (born June 14, 1820 in Breslau , † December 25, 1889 in Berlin ) was a German publisher , book, music and instrument dealer.

Life

Friedländer was a son of the Wroclaw bookseller Marcus Friedländer from his marriage to Philippine Friedländer geb. Schweitzer. He came to Berlin as a young man and founded the music publisher “Stern & Co.” on February 15, 1845 with M. A. Stern, which he continued to run alone from October 1, 1852, as well as a book and music shop. The business premises were soon expanded to include a music lending institute and a piano salon. It was initially located on Werderschen Markt and from 1859 on Mohrenstraße 36.

One of his most important customers was the pianist Clara Schumann , who expressed herself very positively about Friedländer in several letters.

In 1857 he came into the possession of the important autograph collection of the Viennese pianist Joseph Fischhof , which he sold to the Royal Library in 1859 .

On April 21, 1860 he bought the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters with the help of a loan of 29,000 thalers. In 1861 he invented a high-speed printing press that made printing 800% cheaper. He kept his residence in Berlin and now ran the publishing house as “CF Peters Leipzig and Berlin” separately from his Berlin publishing house “Julius Friedländer vorm. Stern & Co. ”in Mohrenstrasse. In 1880 he ceded the publishing house to his partner Max Abraham for a severance payment of 600,000 marks .

From 1862 until his death Friedländer lived in the same house as the Simmel family. In 1874 he took over the guardianship of the later philosopher Georg Simmel and in 1875 bought Königsegg Castle , where Simmel spent part of his youth. In 1887 Friedländer sold the castle again for 77,000 marks in order to be able to settle the debts from a bad speculation. He later bequeathed Simmel most of his remaining fortune, which enabled him to live an independent life as a private scholar.

Friedländer last lived on Schöneberger Ufer No. 31, where he died of the flu. According to the death certificate, his death was reported by Georg Simmel.

family

Julius Friedländer was born with Elisabeth Friedländer. Pulvermacher married († before 1889); the marriage remained childless. The antiquarian Julius Friedländer and the numismatist Julius Friedländer were not related to Friedländer .

literature

  • Rudolf Elvers , music printer, music dealer and music publisher in Berlin from 1750 to 1850. An overview , in: Georg von Dadelsen (Ed.): Festschrift Walter Gerstenberg for his 60th birthday . Wolfenbüttel 1964, pp. 37-44
  • Rudolf Elvers, The Berlin Music Publishers in the 19th Century , in: Report on the International Musicological Congress Berlin 1974 , Kassel 1980, pp. 379–380
  • Correspondence between Clara Schumann and correspondents in Berlin 1856 to 1896 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 18), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 89–94, ISBN 978-3-86846-055-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Molkenbur: C. F. Peters 1800-2000. Selected stations in a publishing history . Leipzig 2001, p. 41, books.google.de
  2. ↑ Register Office Berlin III, death register No. 1571/1889. State Archives Berlin.
  3. ^ Friedländer, Julius, book and music dealer . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1846, part 1, p. 119 (first mentioned).
  4. ^ Otto August Schulz: General address book for the German book trade . Leipzig 1859, p. 57, books.google.de
  5. ^ Richard Schaal: Documents on Joseph Fischhof's Viennese music collection. Your acquisition by the Berlin State Library . In: Mozart-Jahrbuch 1967 , pp. 339–347, books.google.de
  6. ^ Annette Oppermann: Musical classic editions of the 19th century . Göttingen 2001, p. 177, books.google.de
  7. ↑ Erika Bucholtz: Henri Hinrichsen and the music publisher CF Peters , Tübingen 2001, p. 44, books.google.de
  8. ^ Georg Simmel: Philosophy of Money . New York 2001, Appendix, p. 557, books.google.de
  9. ^ Klaus Lichtblau: Georg Simmel . Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 179, books.google.de
personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedländer, Julius Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, book, music and instrument dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1889
Place of death Berlin