Ludwig Rosenthal (Antiquarian)

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Ludwig Rosenthal

Ludwig Rosenthal (born July 2, 1840 in Fellheim , † December 23, 1928 in Munich ) was a German bookseller and antiquarian .

Life

Ludwig was the eldest son of the market trader Joseph Rosenthal . His mother Dorlene geb. Bacharach came from a local Jewish butcher family from Fellheim in what is now the Unterallgäu district . His father Joseph ran an art and antique shop in Fellheim. His three other siblings were Jette, Nathan and Jakob, who later renamed himself Jacques Rosenthal . Ludwig grew up in the Jewish community of Fellheim and attended the joint Jewish-Christian school there. In addition, he was thirteen years old walk into just ten kilometers away Buxheim , in order to attend the former imperial abbey of the Carthusians that today's high school Marianum Buxheim of the Salesians of Don Bosco houses, the English and French language to learn. After training as a bookseller with Isaak Hess in Ellwangen , he opened his own art and antiques shop in Fellheim in 1859 .

Rosenthal Antiquariat

Former butcher Bacharach in Fellheim - birthplace of Ludwig Rosenthal's mother Dorlene (2012)

After the fall of the Matriculation Act in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1862 , the Rosenthal family moved to Munich in 1867 . One of the basic requirements for this move to Munich was proof of assets of 5,000 guilders. Ludwig and his brother Jakob (Jacques) founded the “Rosenthal Antiquariat” in Munich. Their holdings included a map of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world from 1523. Rosenthal was able to include parts of the library of the St. Veit monastery near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, the Leutkirch city ​​library in Allgäu , the library of the Hoermann von Gutenberg family , the library of the Jesuit college in Landsberg , the library of Freiherr Karl Maria von Aretin , parts of the library of the Buxheim monastery near Memmingen and the library of the Lobris manor in Silesia. At the turn of the century, Rosenthal's second-hand bookshop was larger than the Bavarian State Library with more than a million books . A well-known customer was Otto Hupp . In 1900 Rosenthal took over the Missale speciale (formerly Constantiense) from Hupp for sale at a price of 300,000 gold marks. In 1905 he named his three sons Adolf, Heinrich and Norbert Rosenthal as his partners.

Ludwig Rosenthal died in 1928. During the Nazi era, the family was partially able to emigrate to the United States.

From 2002 the Jewish Museum in Munich showed an exhibition about the Rosenthal family, who moved to Fellheim in 2004 and to Mindelheim from 2008. Members of the family, some of whom still work as antiquarians in London or Leidschendam, came to visit.

literature

  • Working group on history, customs and chronicles in cooperation with the Office for Rural Development and the Fellheim community (ed.): Fellheim an der Iller. An illustrated tour through the former Jewish town center of Fellheim . 2007.
  • Sigrid Krämer:  Rosenthal, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 76 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • City archive Munich (ed.): The Rosenthals. The rise of a Jewish family of antiquaries to world fame. With contributions by Elisabeth Angermair, Jens Koch, Anton Löffelmeier, Eva Ohlen and Ingo Schwab, Vienna a. a. Böhlau. 2002, ISBN 320577020X .
  • Bernard M. Rosenthal: Cartel, Clan, or Dynasty? The Olschkis and the Rosenthals 1859-1976 . In: Harvard Library Bulletin 25, 4, 1977, pp. 386-397.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meike Hopp: Art trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-412-20807-3 , pp. 125ff.