Nicolaus Förster

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Nicolaus Förster (born November 22, 1656 or 1657 in Erfurt , † July 4, 1732 ) was a German bookseller , publisher and printer .

Life

family

Nicolaus Förster was the father of the bookseller Friedrich Wilhelm Förster and Rosina Anna Förster (also: Rosine Anne Försterin , married to the German printer Johann Felix Bielke who worked in Jena ).

Career

Copper engraving by the Hanoverian theologian David Meier (1572–1640), dated 1731 , by Christian Fritzsch

In 1678 Nicolaus Förster took over Ulrich Zander's bookstore on the north side of the Marktkirche in Hanover in one of the so-called “booths” that the city's magistrate had been renting to local booksellers since around 1550.

In addition, Förster had also worked as a bookseller and printer in Lüneburg .

Förster was still active in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main in the 17th century : For the first time in 1699, Förster published a catalog under the initial title Catalogus librorum anno ... Easter Mass from Franckfurth and Leipzig acquired by Nicolaus Förstern, booksellers in Hanover through the Frankfurt Book Fair and books published at the Leipzig Book Fair . The catalog was later made by Seel. Nicolai Försters und Sohns Erben bookstore continued under slightly different titles. Förster had originally received a privilege to print the catalog, as emerged from a lawsuit by the electorally privileged printer Jakob Wilke, who resided in Clausthal .

After 1699, but no later than 1703, Förster was appointed court bookseller of the Electorate of Braunschweig Lüneburg ; the title was thus bestowed on him by Elector Georg Ludwig, who later became King George I of Great Britain and Ireland .

Förster also published numerous works by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who also worked in Hanover as a librarian and councilor from December 1676 .

Förster's son Friedrich Wilhelm Förster became known in 1708 at the latest. By 1731 at the latest, Förster ran a bookstore and publishing house under the name Nicolaus Förster und Sohn .

After Förster's death, the bookstore and publisher were continued in various cities under the name Nicolaus Förster Erben and were taken over by the Helwingsche Verlagbuchhandlung in Hanover in 1773, at the latest in 1774 .

Works (incomplete)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information in the database of Lower Saxony Persons in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library ; Re-entry required
  2. ↑ a b Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b Compare this information from the German National Library
  4. ↑ Compare this information from the German National Library
  5. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Hellwing -H.sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 284f.
  6. ↑ Compare this information in VD 17 (see web links)
  7. ↑ a b Compare this information from the German National Library
  8. ↑ Christoph Reske: Jakob Wilke 1685-1727. In: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area / Based on the work of the same name by Josef Benzing , in the series Contributions to the book and library system , Volume 51, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007, ISBN 978-3-447 -05450-8 and ISBN 3-447-05450-6 , p. 138 online via Google books
  9. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, when Georg I was King of Great Britain a. Ireland. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 210f.
  10. ↑ Gerd van den Heuvel: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 392f.
  11. ↑ Compare the title page by David Meyer: M. David Meiers… Kurtzgefaßte message… (see works)
  12. ↑ a b Compare this information from the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, publisher and printer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1656 or November 22, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1732