Leo S. Olschki

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Letteratura Dantesca 1911

Leo Samuele Olschki (born as Lev Samuel Olschki January 8, 1861 in Johannisburg , East Prussia ; died June 17, 1940 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was a German-Italian book antiquarian and publisher .

Life

Olschki was born into a family of Jewish book printers. He learned the book trade in Berlin and married Pauline Rosen (* 1862 in Warsaw, † 1895 in Venice). They had six children, including the Romanist Leonardo Olschki . The sons Cesare and Aldo later continued the business.

In 1885 Olschki went to Verona . There he founded a bookshop and moved with it to Venice in the next few years and to Florence in 1897 , where he had his business on Lungarno degli Acciaiuoli in 1911 . He founded the magazine L'Algheri , which he later renamed Il Giornale dantesco , and from 1899 published the illustrated monthly La Bibliofilia . He was considered an important expert on incunabula in Italy. He founded the Leo S. Olschki publishing house, which specialized in art historical writings. He published the 71-volume Inventari dei Manoscritti delle Biblioteche d'Italia .

When Italy entered the First World War in 1915, Olschki escaped internment as an enemy foreigner by evading to Geneva in Switzerland. In 1925 he received Italian citizenship. When the Mussolini regime passed anti-Jewish racial laws in 1938 , he fled again to Switzerland.

Fonts (selection)

  • From the memories of a Dante publisher . In: Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch Vol. 15, 1933, pp. 132-140.

literature

  • C. Frati: Editori italiani: Leo S. Olschki . In: L'Italia che scrive Vol. 4, IV, 1921, pp. 159-160.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 7. Chernivtsi 1927, pp. 356f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 874 (article on Leonardo Olschki )
  • Alessandro Olschki (Ed.): Centotredici anni. Catalogo storico della Mostra, Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, 22 aprile - 23 maggio 1999 . Olschki, Florence 1999, ISBN 8822247388

Web links

Commons : Leo Olschki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olschki, Leonardo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , p. 368.
personal data
SURNAME Olschki, Leo S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olschki, Leo Samuele; Olschki, Lev Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian book antiquarian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannisburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1940
Place of death Geneva