Julius Klinkhardt

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Julius Klinkhardt

Friedrich Julius Klinkhardt (* July 24, 1810 in Leipzig ; † April 26, 1881 ibid) was a German bookseller and publisher who founded the Julius Klinkhardt publishing house in Leipzig in 1834 .

Life

Julius Klinkhardt was the son of the master shoemaker Friedrich August Klinkhardt (1774-1850) and his wife Erdmuthe, née Quantity (1777-1850). After completing his apprenticeship as a bookseller, he set up a retail store . At the age of 24 he opened his own publishing business under his name in 1834 when he took over J. Sührings Verlags-Expedition .

  • The first shop
    on Nikolaistraße

  • The headquarters of the publishing house
    around 1880

While the company taken over had devoted itself to various fields of work, Klinkhardt soon concentrated on pedagogy and got in touch with pedagogues such as August Berthelt , Louis Thomas and Friedrich Dittes . Books were created for elementary schools and later also teaching materials for middle and higher education. From 1848 the four-volume reading and writing primer "Lebensbilder" appeared, which was particularly popular. In 1849, Klinkhardt and Berthelt founded the “Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung”, which was joined in 1858 by the “Sächsische Schulzeitung”. From 1876 the “School of Pedagogy” by Friedrich Dittes became a special ornament of the publishing house.

Julius Klinkhardt expanded his publishing house's range of titles as well as its technical equipment. In 1861 he took over the book and sheet music printing company "Umlauf & Lüder" and turned it into a large graphic company with 220 employees. In 1869 a bookbindery was added, and a lithographic institute (formerly JG Bach) and a type foundry were added. The commemorative publication to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary in 1884, which Julius Klinkhardt did not live to see, contains a list of personnel with a total of 506 names.

Julius Klinkhardt's grave stele in the Leipzig South Cemetery

Julius Klinkhardt married Julia Schreiber (1818–1869) in 1839. The marriage resulted in seven sons and two daughters. The two sons Robert Julius (1841–1908) and Bruno (1843–1897) joined the company, became partners in 1870 and took it over after the founder's death.

Julius Klinkhardt was buried in the New Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. When this was abandoned and destroyed in the 1970s, a grave stele created by Werner Stein by Julius Klinkhardt in 1882 was moved to the south cemetery . In 1995 it was restored.

Afterlife

Julius Klinkhardt's sons Robert Julius and Bruno expanded the publishing house through acquisitions of publishing houses in Berlin and Vienna and through structural expansion in Leipzig. Under grandson Wilhelm Julius (1871–1935), business administration was added to the educational sciences as a field of work for the publisher.

The main building was destroyed in the bombing of Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . Great-grandson Walther Klinkhardt (1899-1968) moved to the Second World War to Bad Heilbrunn in Bavaria and began here in 1948 with a Versandbuchhandlung, who in 1950 was followed again, the publisher under the original name. The Julius Klinkhardt publishing house is now in the sixth generation.

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  1. ↑ Reminder sheets for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Julius Klinkhardt company. In: Ahnenforschung.net. Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
  2. ^ Tomb stele of Julius Klinkhardt. (No longer available online.) In: Paul-Benndorf-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig eV Archived from the original on August 26, 2016 ; Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Klinkhardt, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klinkhardt, Friedrich Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1881
Place of death Leipzig