Louise Pauli

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Louise Pauli

Louise Pauli (born July 21, 1774 in Stettin , † June 27, 1823 in Berlin ) was a German printer and publisher. She continued to run the publishing house founded by her second husband Joachim Pauli in Berlin in 1761 until her death in 1823.

Life

Louise Christiane Jacobine Pauli, born a pupil, came from a family belonging to the upper class in Stettin, then Prussia . She lost her father at an early age and was raised by her mother along with three younger siblings. Pretty, intelligent, interested in many different things and skilled in artistic matters, she quickly found access to the 'better circles' of her native city. At seventeen she married a wealthy young factory owner. The eleven-year marriage resulted in five children, only two of whom survived their mother. The marriage was divorced in 1802 and soon afterwards Louise married the bookseller and secret councilor Joachim Pauli , who was over 30 years older than her , who died in 1812 and made her the only heir to his bookstore. She took over the badly running business as a result of the war events and restructured the company through tough austerity measures and the sale of parts of the business. The survival of the Krünitz Encyclopedia , published by Paulis Verlag since 1773 during the Napoleonic era, is thanks to her entrepreneurial skills . By establishing contact with influential statesmen like Freiherr von Stein , the publisher's widow knew how to win new subscribers in the public space (schools, archives and libraries) for the flagship of her publishing house. Not least to have support in the publishing business, she remarried in May 1823. Her third husband, a former hospital director and secret secretary named CH Mowinkel , had to continue running the Paulische Buchhandlung, which had been transferred to him as an inheritance contract , on his own just a few weeks later . Except in an obituary by one of her employees, to whom she had given the editorial post of Krünitz's Encyclopedia in 1813, her publishing work for over ten years has left no traces.

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SURNAME Pauli, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Student, Louise (maiden name); Pauli, Louise Christiane Jacobine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1823
Place of death Berlin