Julius Theodor Baedeker

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Julius Theodor Baedeker

Julius Theodor Baedeker (also Bädeker ) (born December 18, 1814 in Witten ; died March 26, 1880 in Iserlohn ) was a German bookseller and publisher .

Life

Julius Baedeker was the son of the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker (1788–1865) and Amalia Friederika Arnoldina (Friederike) Sybel (1786–1866). He trained as a bookseller with W. Langewiesche in Iserlohn. In 1837 he began his service as a one-year volunteer. For a short time he was a student at the University of Halle to history and philosophy to hear.

He was the nephew of Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker and after his death in 1841 he continued to run his company in Essen until January 1, 1844, when his sons Eduard (1817–1879) and Julius Baedeker became owners. On November 1, 1843, he founded the "Book and Art Dealer Julius Baedeker" in Elberfeld . In addition to the publisher, it published the “Elberfelder Zeitung” and “Blätter für Frauenbildung”. In 1845 he was in contact with Moses Hess and Friedrich Engels .

On June 13, 1845 he married Bertha Carolina Hermina Obertüschen (1824-1856). The marriage had four children: Maria Emilia (Emmy) Baedeker (born 1846), Hugo Friedrich Johann Baedeker (1847–1904), Paul Baedeker (born 1851) and Franz Julius Baedeker (born 1855). He was a member of the Freemason lodge Hermann zum Land der Berge in Elberfeld since 1845 and Zur Deutschen Redlichkeit in Iserlohn since 1853. Johann Jakob Kruse supported Julius Baedeker from 1847 with the publication of the newspaper “Iserlohner Wochenblatt”.

His son Hugo Baedeker became co-owner of the “Julius Baedeker” publishing house in Iserlohn and later in Leipzig. Julius Theodor Baedeker died on March 26, 1880 in Iserlohn. He was buried in the main cemetery in Iserlohn .

Letters from him with the locations to Wilhelm von Kaulbach , Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , Ludwig Elbers , Robert von Schlagintweit , Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch , Heinrich Kruse , Adalbert Kuhn , Justus von Liebig , Friedrich Albert Lange and Hans Vaihinger are recorded in the Kalliope database . 

The Baedeker-Straße in Witten and Iserlohn is named after him.

Selection of published works

  • Society mirror. Organ to represent the dispossessed national classes and to illuminate the social conditions of the present . Julius Baedeker, Elberfeld 1845–1846.
  • Hüllmann: Speeches for masters and journeymen when erecting buildings . Julius Baedeker, Elberfeld and Iserlohn 1847. MDZ Reader
  • C. Hecker : The uprising at Elberfeld in May 1849 and my relationship to it . In Commission Julius Baedeker, Elberfeld 1849. MDZ Reader
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker : Memoranda of the judicial medicine. With special consideration of the more recent German, Prussian and Rhenish legislation. Edited as a guide to his lectures and for use by doctors and lawyers . Julius Baedeker, Iserlohn a. Elberfeld 1854. MDZ reader
  • Friedrich Hadrian Josef Thesmar : The situation of the Prussian fatherland at the end of the legislative period in 1855. Bädekersche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Elberfeld 1855. MDZ Reader
  • Gotthelf Huyssen: The festivals of the Christian church. A book for Protestant families . Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1856. MDZ Reader
  • Friedrich Roeber : Tristan and Isolde. A tragedy in arabesques . Julius Baedeker, Elberfeld 1856. Digitized
  • Ludwig Jacobi : The mountain, smelting and commercial nature of the government district Arnsberg in statistical representation. Along with a steelworks and trade map of the government district . J. Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857. Digitized
  • Adolf Schults : Poems . 3rd possible edition. Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857. MDZ Reader
  • Carl Siebel : Poems . 2nd increased edition. Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1859. Digitized
  • Carl Fuhlrott : The caves and grottoes in Rhineland-Westphalia with a description and plan of the newly discovered, magnificent Dechen cave . J. Bädeker, Iserlohn 1869. MDZ Reader
  • Friedrich Albert Lange : History of materialism and criticism of its significance in the present . J. Baedeker Verlag, Iserlohn 1873. MDZ Reader
  • Hans Vaihinger : Hartmann , Dühring and Lange. On the history of German philosophy in the XIX. Century. A critical essay . J. Baedeker, Iserlohn 1876. ULB Münster
  • Henriette Davidis : The kitchen and flower garden for housewives sorted by months . 13th edition Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1880.
  • Friedrich Albert Lange: History of materialism and criticism of its significance in the present. Concerned and provided with a biographical foreword by Hermann Cohen . Cheap edition. Second thousand. J. Baedeker, Iserlohn and Leipzig 1887.

literature

  • Otto August Schulz: General address book for the German book trade, the antiquarian, colportage, art, map and music trade as well as related branches of business . Volume 12. Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1850, p. 6. Digitized
  • Julius Theodor Baedeker. A picture of life, presented to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bookstore he founded in 1843 . Leipzig 1893.
  • Karl Friedrich Pfau :  Baedeker . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 180-182.
  • Bernhard Koerner : Genealogical handbook of middle class families. Volume 12, Görlitz 1906, p. 19.
  • Bernhard Koerner: Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families Volume 17, Görlitz 1910, p. 212.
  • Wilhelm Schulte : Westphalian heads. 300 life pictures of important Westphalians . Aschendorff, Münster 1977. ISBN 3-402-05700-X , p. 14.
  • Julius Theodor Baedeker . In: Distinctive heads from the Märkisches Kreis. Life data of important personalities from Iserlohn with the districts Letmathe, Hennen and Sümmern . Publications of the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Mönnig 1997, ISBN 3922885896 . (With picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the obituary for him in the Journal für Ornithologie 1866. online
  2. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer .
  3. ^ Elberfelder Zeitung appeared from 1845 to 1848.
  4. ^ HH Friedländer, Richard Schornstein (editors): Sheets for female education . Volume 1. Julius Bädeker, Elberfeld 1848, Volume 2. Julius Bädeker, Elberfeld and Iserlohn 1849.
  5. ^ Otto August Schulz.
  6. ↑ Johann Jakob Kruse . Iserlohn City Archives
  7. ↑ "The latest thing is that Hess and I will be publishing a monthly magazine 'Gesellschaftsspiegel' at [Moritz] Thieme & [Gustav] Butz in Hagen from April 1st, describing the social misery and the bourgeois regime." (Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx January 20, 1845. Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 27, p. 15.)
  8. ↑ See also: Baedeker left traces as a publisher . Pages 3 and 4.
personal data
SURNAME Baedeker, Julius Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baedeker, Julius; Bädeker, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, bookseller and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1880
Place of death Iserlohn