Karl Messow

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Karl Messow (born October 19, 1802 in Brandenburg , † March 11, 1840 in Stuttgart ) was a German bookseller, editor and publisher .

Life

Karl Messow was born the son of a cloth maker and grew up in poor conditions.

He attended the community school in Brandenburg. Because his parents were unable to enable him to study due to the financial situation, he left school in the 7th grade and started an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Brandenburg in the Wiesike bookstore on January 1, 1817. In 1822 he left the shop to join the Dyk'sche bookstore in Leipzig . He stayed there for a few years and then went to the Trachsler'schen bookstore in Zurich . There he was given the management of the business after a short time. The business owner Johann Georg Trachsler involved him as a partner in the business and after the business owner's death in 1832 he bought the business. Due to the political developments in Switzerland in the 1830s and the resulting reservations about foreigners, the business situation developed so negatively that he could no longer meet his obligations and in 1834 he gave up the business.

At the end of 1836 he moved to Stuttgart and became managing director in the Stuttgart publishing business of Carl Hoffmann (1802–1883), for whose brother Franz Hoffmann he had previously worked in St. Gallen .

In 1838 Karl Messow founded the "Süddeutsche Buchhandlerzeitung". It was the first paper that was exclusively devoted to the interests of the book trade. In addition to managing his newspaper, he also worked for the "address book for the southern German book trade" and for the bookstore directories in northern and southern Germany.

Due to a stroke, he died in Stuttgart shortly before he left to visit his parents. The necrology was written by Julius Springer, the founder of Springer Verlag .

Works

  • Swiss hour hand . Zurich.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed December 21, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Zeno: Messow, Carl. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ Weekly newspaper for booksellers, music dealers, book printers and antiquarians . Krieger, 1832 ( google.de [accessed December 22, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1833, [4] . General Zeitung, 1833 ( google.de [accessed December 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Messow, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, editor and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1840
Place of death Stuttgart