Lazarus Moses Glogau

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Lazarus Moses Glogau (born July 5, 1805 in Hamburg ; † October 9, 1887 there ) was a German bookseller and antiquarian .

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The father of Lazarus Moses Glogau, Moses Hirsch Glogau (1760-1820), was a native of the city of Glogau and chose this name as his family name. Most likely he reached Hamburg as a widower with a son named Hirsch. In the Hanseatic city, the father married Amalie Nathan from Altona , whose father first got rich as a wine merchant, but was now impoverished and acted as secretary of the Jewish community. Moses Hirsch Glogau and Amalie Nathan had daughters Sophie and Betty and the sons Lazarus Moses and Nathan. Nathan Gloglau died at the age of 19.

The Glogau family initially had an apartment on Schlachterstrasse in Hamburg-Neustadt , where many Jews lived. Moses Hirsch Glogau worked as a teacher and writer. He also made copies of documents and traded linen from Silesia. During the French period in Hamburg in December 1813, the family did not manage to get enough provisions. The family therefore had to leave Hamburg. Together with many other expelled people, they lived in Schmiedestrasse in Altona until the end of the siege in 1814. The family then got their previous apartment back on Schlachterstrasse.

A little later, the nine-year-old Lazarus Moses Glogau traveled with his father for several years through Denmark, Mecklenburg, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Austria and via Hungary back to Hamburg. The sick father stayed here for a cure and earned a living from his self-written book "Wisdoms of Life". The work, written in Hebrew, appeared to be selling very well. During this time, Lazarus Moses Glogau acquired language skills at schools in Copenhagen , Prague and Vienna . His half-brother Hirsch financed his mother and sisters in Hamburg from Bergen , Norway , where he lived as a successful businessman. In his memoirs, written shortly before the end of his life, Lazarus Moses comprehensively described the journey, which can be assumed to be the only longer journey of his life.

After returning to his native town, Lazarus Moses attended Meyer Hahn's school for a year and a half , which was located on 3. Elbstrasse. His half-brother Hirsch took over the costs. He then worked for a pawnbroker and in a restaurant. He then traveled through the surrounding area for an old goods dealer from Wandsbek . He bought objects made of copper and tin and books on the side. Since the books meant a lot to him and he did not just see them as waste paper, his employer gave him permission to sell them on the market in Altona. Since the books were selling well, he started his own business as an antiquarian. When it was first mentioned in the Hamburg address book in 1828, he had the company headquarters in 1. Marienstraße and was engaged in “buying old books, clothes and paper”.

On August 24, 1831, Lazarus Moses Glogau married Jette Margonin, four years his junior. Glogau had met his wife for the first time at a lottery event when she was eleven and decided to marry her as soon as he had sufficient income. The couple had six sons, one of whom died early, and three daughters. The sons Moses (Moritz 1832-1894), Benny (1840-1917) and Semmy (1843-1923) later joined their father's company one after the other and then worked as independent booksellers.

In the following years Glogau expanded his bookshop. From 1840 it was on Böhmkenstraße, in 1846 it moved to the Große Bleichen , in 1848 to the Venusberg and in 1850 to the 2nd Elbstraße. From 1861 it was located at Großer Burstah 57 / at the corner of Rödingsmarkt, eleven years later at Großer Burstah 13. At that time, the bookstore also had a lending library. In 1872 Glogau went into retirement. The son Semmy continued the business under the company L. M. Glogau Sohn . In 1881 he opened a branch in Leipzig, Neumarkt 19.

In contrast to his children, Lazarus Moses Glogau was considered a pious Jew for life . He got involved with poor members of the Jewish community, for whom he donated a lot anonymously. On his 70th birthday, he gave the prayer room of the Association of Consoling Brothers , the Traubschul , an elaborately designed velvet Torah curtain bearing the name of the Glogau couple. On the occasion of the 80th birthday he gave the device with a Torah pointer from ivory , the two silver bells had.

Jette Glogau died on October 24, 1885. At the urgent request of the children, Lazarus Moses Glogau then wrote his life story. He died two years after his wife in Hamburg.

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  1. ↑ Moses M. Haarbleicher: Two epochs from the history of the German-Israelite community in Hamburg. Otto Meissner, Hamburg 1867, p. 191 .
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SURNAME Glogau, Lazarus Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1887
Place of death Hamburg