Karl Cornides
Karl Cornides (born February 17, 1911 in Munich , † March 16, 1989 in Rekawinkel in Lower Austria ) was a German journalist and publisher.
Life
The son of the publisher Wilhelm von Cornides and his wife Cäcilie, née Oldenbourg, and older brother of Wilhelm Cornides passed the Abitur examination at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1930 , with Franz Krapf , Karl-Heinrich Wirschinger , the publisher's son Eberhard Oldenbourg (1911-2001) , among others. , Klaus Piper , Sigmund Rehm and Karl Wilhelm Thilo . He then studied and received his doctorate in 1935 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the field of political science.
From 1936 to 1941 he headed the Berlin office of the Munich Oldenbourg publishing house ; From 1945 to 1947 he was editor-in-chief of "Tiroler Nachrichten". In 1947 he was a co-founder of the “Verlag für Geschichte und Politik”; In 1957 he founded a publishing branch in Vienna together with Rudolf Oldenbourg .
Karl Cornides died at the age of 78 and was buried in the cemetery in Schönau an der Triesting . His son, the lawyer Thomas Cornides (* 1938), joined the Oldenbourg publishing house in 1967. Since 1972 he has been managing director of the humanities department and from 1983 to 1998 the entire publishing house.
In 1948 Karl Cornides set up the “Spirit and Present” section in the “Europa-Archiv” magazine published by his brother Wilhelm Cornides. As a publisher, he edited important works on Austrian and European history, including “Laws and Principles of Politics” by Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu.
Fonts
- The German Book Prize. Political science dissertation from September 25, 1935 at the University of Munich. Oldenbourg, Munich 1935
- Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu: Laws and Principles of Politics. Edited, translated and introduced by Karl Cornides. Lux et humanitas vol. 6. Pantheon-Verlag, Friborg; Frankfurt a. M .; Vienna 1949
Web links
- Oldenbourg (Oldenburg) , in: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz73339.html
- Entry on Karl Cornides in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report on the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1929/30
- ↑ In 2006 the Wiener Verlage Oldenbourg and the Verlag für Geschichte und Politik were taken over by the Veritas Verlags- und Handelsgesellschaft
- ^ Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu: De l'Esprit des Loix, 1748 and other editions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cornides, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cornides, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1989 |
| Place of death | Rekawinkel |