Leopold Voss

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David Leopold Voss , also Voss (* December 17, 1793 in Leipzig ; † November 26, 1868 ), was a German bookseller and publisher in Leipzig (Verlag Leopold Voss).

Life

He was the son of the Leipzig bookseller Georg Voss (1765–1842) and went to school in Leipzig and Dessau . Georg Voss, who switched from cloth merchant to book trade in Braunschweig and founded a bookstore with a publishing house in Leipzig in 1791, had moved to Dessau during the Napoleonic Wars because the war stress in Leipzig was too great for him. Leopold Voss began an apprenticeship as a bookseller with Friedrich Vieweg in Braunschweig in 1809 , which he completed in 1812 with Joachim Heinrich Campe , Vieweg's father-in-law, in Hamburg. He then returned to Leipzig, but because of the difficult times of war, instead of first going into his father's bookstore, he was employed by a businessman (Lattermann and son). He then worked as a volunteer officer in the Saxon army in the wars of liberation against Napoleon on the Rhine and after his return he joined his father's bookstore, which he took over in 1818 when his father himself took a job in the exchange shop. He made connections with important authors and intellectuals. One of the publishing products was the newspaper for the elegant world , founded in 1801, and his father also published the Napoleonic law books . A focus of the publishing house under Leopold Voss were scientific books in medicine and natural science. In 1832 he became commissioner of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences with numerous contacts in Russia. As a retail bookseller, he also sold foreign literature (which Leopold Michelsen later took over). In 1865 he retired.

Leopold Voss published, among others, Karl Friedrich Burdach , Rudolf Wagner , Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , Samuel Thomas Soemmering , Matthias Alexander Castrén (in his branch in Saint Petersburg), Johann Ludwig Choulant , the General Encyclopedia of Physics edited by Gustav Karsten (in it appeared under including the manual of physiological optics by Hermann von Helmholtz ), complete editions by Immanuel Kant and Johann Friedrich Herbart , Gustav Theodor Fechner (as Dr. Mises), a general machine encyclopedia published by Julius Ambrosius Hülße and the Chemisches Zentralblatt .

His second-born son Julius Leopold Voss (* 1833) took over the publishing house, which he joined in 1859 and in which he became a partner in 1862. Since he was ailing, he sold the book trade to Gustav Haessel in 1879 and the publishing house to Ernst Maaß in 1882, who moved him to Hamburg.

He received the Order of Annes 3rd Class from Russia and the Order of Merit of Saxony .

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SURNAME Voss, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1868