Moriz Sondheim

Moriz Sondheim (* 1860 in Le Havre ; † April 10, 1944 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German antiquarian .

Moriz Sondheim was born in France to German parents. His father had to return to Germany when the war broke out in 1870 and settled in Karlsruhe , where Moriz attended high school. In 1877 he started as an apprentice at the Joseph Baer & Co. antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt. In 1890 he became an authorized signatory there, and on January 1, 1901, he co-owned the company with Leo and Edwin Baer .

After the professional ban in June 1934 and the dissolution of the company, he stayed in Frankfurt, had to wear the “ Jewish star ” and live in a “ Jewish house ”. He died as a result of an air raid.

He married Marie Kossmann in Karlsruhe in 1887 (born March 28, 1857 in St. Petersburg; † 1934). Both of them stated “Jewish” as their denomination; he was later changed to “non-denominational” and her to “Protestant”.

Publications (selection)

• Collected Writings. Buchkunde - Bibliophilie - Literatur - Kunst et al. J. Baer & Co., Frankfurt 1927 [“The present edition of the collected writings of Moriz Sondheim was printed in two hundred numbered copies and sent to the author on August 25, 1927 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in the profession and for Celebration of its 50 years of activity in the bookstore Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main, dedicated by Leo and Edwin Baer. ”] ( Digitized version ).
• The title page. Address by Moriz Sondheim at the opening of the 5th exhibition of the Frankfurt Bibliophile Society in the Kunstgewerbe-Museum in Frankfurt am Main on February 20, 1927 . Gutenberg Society, Mainz 1927.
• Bibliophilia. Speech given at the annual meeting of the Society of Bibliophiles on September 11, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main . Bremen / Berlin 1933 ( text ).

literature

• Max Niderlechner: Memory of Moriz Sondheim. In: Imprimatur. Volume 12, 1955, pp. 214-218.
• Fritz Homeyer: German Jews as Bibliophiles and Antiquaries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1963, pp. 29-31.
• Paul Arnsberg: The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution . Volume 3: Biographical lexicon of Jews in the fields of science, culture, education, public relations in Frankfurt am Main . Darmstadt 1983, p. 437.
• P. Neumann: Sondheim, Moritz. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. 2nd Edition. Volume 7. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2007, p. 137.
• Moriz Sondheim (1860-1944). In: From the second-hand bookshop. NF 14, 2016, No. 3, pp. 134-143.