Oehmigke Verlag

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Oehmigke is a German publishing house that was founded in 1784.

The publisher was founded by Johann Samuel Ferdinand Oehmigke (* May 25, 1761, † June 13, 1827). Oehmigke was the son of a respected factory owner in Berlin. In 1775 he took up an apprenticeship in bookselling at Brönner in Frankfurt am Main . He became an assistant to Johann Friedrich Korn in Breslau and worked in the bookstore of his father-in-law Joachim Pauli in Berlin.

After Oehmigke first opened his own bookstore with an affiliated publishing house in Küstrin in 1784 , he moved to Berlin in 1790 . After a while, the product range business was handed over to Gottfried Karl Nauck . He continued to run the publishing house and also opened a lending library, which he ran until 1815. Oehmigke himself published his own works under a pseudonym . In 1815 Oehmigke returned to Küstrin.

publishing company

In 1821 Ludwig Oehmigke took over the publishing house. In 1828 the publisher's catalog included 78 works, mostly of smaller size, as well as a number of magazines. In 1855 the publishing house was sold to Friedrich Appelius; In 1873 it came to R. Appelius. Since 1904, Dr. jur. F. Caspari owner of L. Oehmigkes Verlagshandlung (R. Appelius) in Berlin.

Major publications

The brochure "Frauenbildung" by Helene Lange appeared in the publishing house , which became essential for the equality of women in the education system.

swell

  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen 1827, pp. 590–592.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 4. Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, p. 729.

Individual evidence

  1. Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010, p. 64 f.