Leo Woerl

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Leo Woerl (born May 24, 1843 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † July 1, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German Catholic publisher, best known for his travel books.

Life

Leo Woerl was the son of the cartographer Joseph Edmund Woerl (1803–1865) and Maria Herder (* 1805), a daughter of Bartholomä Herder (1774–1839), and thus a nephew of the owner of the Herder'sche publishing house in Freiburg, Benjamin Herder (1818-1888). He learned the book trade in Freiburg near Herder from 1858 to 1862 and, after a few years of traveling as a bookseller, founded his own publishing bookstore in Würzburg in 1866 ("Leo Woerl'sche Buch- und kirchliche Kunstverlagshandlung", also "Leo Woerl'sche Buch, Kunst- und Verlagshandlung" ";" Verlag von Leo Woerl "), whose range ranged from theological to the fiction. From 1866 to 1869 he lived in Zurich ; since the 1870s he also had an agency in Vienna (Spiegelgasse 12).

The Catholic Franconian Volksblatt was published in his Würzburg publishing house from 1868 to 1870 . From 1874 he also ran a "Central Bureau for Catholic Interests" for job placement for Catholic workers. In Würzburg he was also active in local politics as a city councilor from 1882 to 1891.

In 1878 the publisher began to publish travel guides (“Woerl travel guides”), of which more than 600 had appeared by the turn of the century. “Woerl's travel books publishing house” was relocated to Leipzig in 1897 , at that time the central German book trade city. His publisher also published a two-volume, abridged version of the magnificent multi-volume work by Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany The Balearic Islands . Woerl wrote a biography of Ludwig Salvator published in 1899. Other well-known Woerl authors included Joseph Stöckle .

After Woerl had left the city of Würzburg after bankruptcy in 1898, the publishing house was taken over by Albrecht Seemann (1863–1952) in 1920.

Fonts

  • The Catholic press. A New Year's greeting for the Catholics of Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Woerl, Würzburg 1875.
  • The Catholic press in Europe on New Year's Day 1877 . Woerl, Würzburg 1876.
    • 2nd edition The Catholic Press in Europe 1877 . Woerl, Würzburg 1877 ( digitized version ).
  • World tour of the Catholic press on New Year 1878 . Woerl, Würzburg 1878.
  • Statistics of Catholic newspapers and magazines around the world for New Year 1879 . Woerl, Würzburg 1879.
  • The journalism of the present. A survey of the entire press in the world . Issue 1–6 Woerl, Würzburg 1879–1881.
    • Issue 1: The press conditions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . 1879.
    • Book 2: The press conditions in the Kingdom of Württemberg . 1879.
    • Booklet 3: The press conditions in the Swiss Confederation . 1879.
    • Booklet 4: The press conditions in the Kingdom of Bavaria . 1880.
    • Issue 5: The Press Conditions in the Imperial State of Austria-Hungary . 1881 ( digitized version ).
    • Issue 6: The press conditions in the Kingdom of Prussia . 1881.
  • Statistics of the Catholic newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Luxembourg and Switzerland for the New Year 1882 . Woerl, Würzburg 1882.
  • Archduke Ludwig Salvator from the Austrian imperial house as a researcher of the Mediterranean . Woerl, Leipzig 1899 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers, German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry . Volume 6. Verlag von Rudolf Schmidt, Eberswalde 1908, pp. 1055-1056 ( digitized version ).
  • Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 3 July 1918, No. 152.
  • Michael Schmolke : The bad press. Catholics and journalism between “Catholics” and “Publik” 1821–1968 . Regensberg, Münster 1971, pp. 183-184.
  • Julius Dorneich : Hansjakob's first publisher Leo Woerl . In: Hansjakob-Jahrbuch Volume 6, 1978, pp. 14-24.
  • Olaf Blaschke : Catholicism and anti-Semitism in the German Empire (= Critical Studies on History, Volume 122). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-35785-0 , p. 60, 137, 143, 207.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fränkisches Volksblatt in the Historisches Lexikon Bayern .
  2. ↑ Christlich-sociale Blätter No. 31, December 20, 1874, pp. 299-300 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ The Balearic Islands. Described in words and pictures . 2 volumes. Woerl, Würzburg / Leipzig 1897; abridged version of The Balearic Islands . 7 volumes, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869–1891.
  4. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1234.

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personal data
SURNAME Woerl, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1918
Place of death Leipzig