Margaretha Elisabeth Forchhammer

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Margaretha Elisabeth Forchhammer , née Wiggers, (baptized June 3, 1761 in Husum , † February 21, 1857 in Tondern ) was a German printer's owner and publisher.

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Margaretha Elisabeth Forchhammer was the daughter of Georg Wiggers (baptized March 3, 1712 in Bredstedt ; † May 3, 1803 in Husum) and his wife Maria Elisabeth, née Altmann (baptized June 1, 1721 in Hamburg ; † November 25, 1794 in Husum). The father worked from 1757 to 1789 as a city physician in Husum and Friedrichstadt . The mother was a daughter of the Hamburg lawyer Johann Hinrich Altmann (1690–1763) and his wife Anna Maria, née Willich.

The school education Forchhammer received is not sufficiently documented. She spent childhood and youth in Husum. Husum's most intellectually and culturally important people frequented her parents' house. So she got to know the pedagogue Johann Ludolph Forchhammer . Both married on April 9, 1791. The couple had a daughter and six sons, including Thomas Forchhammer (* 1792), Georg Forchhammer , August Forchhammer (* 1797), Heinrich Forchhammer (* 1799) and Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer .

Shortly after the Forchhammer's wedding, Johann Ludolph Forchhammer opened a private school with boarding school in the family home. Therefore Margaretha Elisabeth Forchhammer had to look after a large household early on. In 1803 her husband got a job as rector of the community school and as first teacher at the teachers' college in Tondern, where the family moved to live. Johann Ludolph Forchhammer died unexpectedly in July 1810. Margaretha Elisabeth Forchhammer had little wealth of her own. In order to finance the education of her sons, she traded in stone ware. Until 1815 she operated a lending library.

After the death of her husband, she asked the governorship for a privilege to run a printing shop to produce a newspaper. The Tønder bailiff Ernst Albrecht von Bertouch, the Forchhammer extremely reasonable person described, supported the request, even though he doubted that they could earn with the newspaper money. In 1812 Forchhammer received the desired privilege. On September 30, 1812 - before the privilege was granted - she published the first edition of the weekly Tonderner Intellektivenblatt , which she herself edited. It appeared in a small octave format and usually comprised a bow. The first part often contained anecdotal or instructive articles that she copied from German newspapers. The second part contained official orders, notices and notices. Forchhammer was probably responsible for the fact that the paper remained apolitical until the 1830s. After 1840 she de facto transferred the management to her son Heinrich. Probably due to the influence of the Tondern businessman Johannes Christian Todsen, contributions from Schleswig-Holstein and anti-Danish increased from 1840 onwards. These reached their zenith during the Schleswig-Holstein survey . Although the political articles disappeared completely from 1851 after the end of the war, the newspaper was banned for a year and a half in 1853/54. In 1854 Forchhammer officially handed over the management of the publishing house to her son. Although there were other applications and despite criticism from the Danish side, he got the newspaper privilege. The newspaper belonged to him until 1871.

Forchhammer printed and published several books, most of which dealt with theology and education. In 1819 she printed the extended new edition of the North Frisian Chronicle by Anton Heimreich , edited by Nicolaus Falck . In 1829 she printed Andreas Hojer's two-volume work on Friedrich IV.

literature

  • Ute Hayessen: Forchhammer, Margarethe Elisabeth . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 107-108.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ute Hayessen: Forchhammer, Margarethe Elisabeth . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9, p. 107.
  2. ↑ Ute Hayessen: Forchhammer, Margarethe Elisabeth. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9, pp. 107-108.
  3. ↑ Ute Hayessen: Forchhammer, Margarethe Elisabeth. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9, p. 108.
personal data
SURNAME Forchhammer, Margaretha Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiggers, Margaretha Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German print shop owner and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1857
Place of death Tondern