Michael Leuckart

Michael Günther Leuckart (* September 1710 ; other year of birth 1712 in Stolberg ; † April 22, 1792 in Helmstedt ) was a German printer .

Life

Michael Leuckart was the son of Gottfried Christoph Leuckart (born September 17, 1682 in Frankenhausen , † October 25, 1726 in Stolberg), bailiff and his wife Clara Johanna, born. Rothmaler (born March 24, 1687 in Stolberg; † September 18, 1728 there).

He received his training as a book printer with Johann Christoph Ehrhardt in Stolberg and in 1729 gave away his postulate with the book printer Georg Andreas Müller in Erfurt, that is, admission by deposition to the journeyman's class after payment of a financial contribution.

From 1736 to 1739 he headed the printing works of Sebastian Buchholtz († 1730 or 1731) in Helmstedt and during this time married his youngest daughter in March 1737. In November 1739 he became owner of the Offizin and improved and expanded the business through the purchase of existing since 1730, but in bankruptcy geratenen printing Officina Drimborniana by Johann Drimborn. In the equipment of the print shop with two presses Greek and Hebrew Scriptures also Syrian and Arabic were in addition to the ordinary German, Latin, types and from earlier in Braunschweig resident typecaster Johann Heinrich Ludolf Stemler for a work of Abbot Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein cut wedge -Letters .

He now printed by name for foreign bookstores and was the first owner of this printing house, which had existed since 1661, and who was appointed Helmstedt council printer and councilor.

In 1782 he took his eldest son Sigmund Christian David Leuckart († 1826) into the business as a partner, who continued the business on his own until 1814 and then took his own son Johann Rudolph Gottfried († 1840) with him into the management; his other son Friedrich Leuckart became a medic, zoologist and naturalist.

The son of Johann Rudolph Gottfried Leuckart, Rudolf Leuckart , was the founder of parasitology .

Another son of Michael Leuckart was Franz Ernst Christoph Leuckart (born March 21, 1748 in Helmstedt, † February 9, 1817 in Breslau ), who founded the music publisher F. EC Leuckart Verlag in Breslau .

literature

• Britta Berg: Leuckart, Michael Gunther . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 438 .
• Jakob Franck:  Leuckart, Michael Günther . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 480 f.
• Michael Leuckart in Carl Ludwig Grotefend : History of the book printing works in the Hanoverian and Brunswick countries . Hanover 1840.