Karl Joseph Stegmann
Karl Joseph Stegmann (* 1767 ; † March 4, 1837 in Augsburg ; different death date: March 3, 1837) was a German editor .
Life
Karl Joseph Stegmann was born in Silesia . His father lost his entire fortune in the great Depper bankruptcy in Warsaw.
Stegmann attended schools in Breslau and Berlin and completed a law degree at the University of Halle . He worked for some time in a public administration office in Berlin, but then gave up the civil service career and traveled to Italy, where he spent two years. During this time he wrote several travel reports, which he published anonymously in 1798 under the title Fragments about Italy. Published from the diary of a young German . In 1789 he moved to Zurich in Switzerland and was editor of the foreign section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung ; During this time he began to write correspondent reports for the Allgemeine Zeitung . He also acted as a translator, including a garden book from English, but also worked as a secretary. During his stay in Switzerland he was also a literary assistant and wrote reviews for the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung in Jena and Halle .
In 1803 Johann Friedrich Cotta appointed him to work for the editor Ludwig Ferdinand Huber in the editorial team of the Allgemeine Zeitung. After his death in 1804 he took over the editorial office of the Allgemeine Zeitung , first in Ulm and from 1810 in Augsburg . He headed the newspaper until his death in 1837. Gustav Kolb was his successor .
Works
- Fragments about Italy. From the diary of a young German . Tuebingen 1798.
literature
- Christian Petzet: Stegmann, Karl Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 564 f.
- Karl Joseph Stegmann in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 15th year 1837, 1st part, p. 329 f. Weimar 1839.
- Karl Joseph Stegmann in the Augsburger "Allgemeine Zeitung" and the press policy of Bavaria, p. 24. Tübingen 1996. ISBN 3-484-35054-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Cotta'sche “Verlagsbuch 1787-1806”. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stegmann, Karl Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stegmann, Karl Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1767 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1837 |
| Place of death | augsburg |