Matthias Joseph Heimerl

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Matthias Joseph Heimerl , also Matthäus Heimerle (* 1732 in Vienna ; † May 10, 1784 in the Timisoara Fortress , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian printer , publisher , bookseller and newspaper editor .

Life

Heimerl was born in Vienna in 1732. He and his family came to the Banat (exact date unknown), where his son Heinrich was born in 1767.

When Emperor Joseph II visited the Banat in April / May 1768, he asked in his subsequent report to Empress Maria Theresa to set up a printing press in the Banat. Thereupon the empress sent an instruction to the provincial administration in Timisoara, in which the "establishment of a printing press" is mentioned. In 1769 Heimerl opened the Banat's first book printing press with imperial privilege in the Timisoara factory town . On September 2, 1770, the provincial administration of the Crown and Chamber Domain Temescher Banat assigned him the "old silk house" for the construction of a new printing plant. A few days earlier, she granted him a loan of 1,500 guilders. In addition, the authorities guaranteed him and his successors all printing work for the next 12 years. In addition, no other printer was allowed to set up in the Banat.

The oldest print by Heimerl dates from 1769 "Instruction how an officer has to behave when managing a transport in money and billing matters". Two years after the establishment of his press (1771) Heimerl was granted the privilege of being able to publish a weekly newspaper entitled "Intelligence Journal" and an annual calendar. When the Temesvar Normal School was opened in 1775, Heimerl printed the school books with official permission, which had to match the books in Vienna except for the number of pages. German, Latin, Slavic, Hungarian and French books were printed in Heimerl's print shop. He also got the official printed matter, which is why he used the title “k. & K. Banatischer administration printer ”led. In 1783 the Viennese book hanger Johann Thomas Trattner transferred his bookshop rights for Temesvar to him. Heimerl also printed ecclesiastical and religious matters. When Banat Hungary was incorporated in 1779 and the camera goods were sold, Heimerl acquired the printing house and moved with it and his apartment to the inner city . In April 1784 the first edition of the German weekly newspaper "Temeswarer Nachrichten" appeared, the first political paper of the Banat. Only a few numbers of the sheet have survived.

Heimerl also gave literature a place and asked the reader to collaborate, be it with his own texts or with translations. The texts of Johann Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider became known through the "Timisoara News" . Shortly before the publication of the “Temeswarer Nachrichten”, the first printed book “Fragments of unknown writers from antiquity” appeared in Heimerl's printing works.

Heimerl died in Timisoara in 1784, where he was buried in the fortress cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
  2. ↑ a b mek.oszk.hu , History of printing and newspapers in the Banat. 1769-1922.
  3. ↑ books.google.de , cultural dialogue and accepted diversity?
personal data
SURNAME Heimerl, Matthias Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimerle, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian printer, publisher, bookseller and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1784
Place of death Timisoara , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary