Oskar Munsterberg

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Oskar Münsterberg (born July 23, 1865 in Danzig ; † April 12, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German printing entrepreneur.

Life

Oskar Münsterberg was born on July 23, 1865 in Danzig to Jewish parents. His father was the merchant Moritz Münsterberg, his mother the painter and draftsman Anna Bernhardy. He had two older half-brothers ( Emil and Otto ), who came from Moritz Münsterberg's marriage to Rosalie Bernhardy, who died in 1857, and one brother ( Hugo ).

Münsterberg attended grammar school in Danzig and then studied economics and art history in Munich and Freiburg.

His studies were interrupted in the years 1886 to 1893, during which he lived in Detmold and became director and partner of the Klingenberg printing company . He bought a house adjoining the factory premises and furnished it over the years with valuable works of art that he had brought back from trips around the world. Today the building is registered as Haus Münsterberg as a monument in the monument list of the city of Detmold. In Detmold he founded the “Collection of Patriotic Antiquities” with Otto Weerth for the Detmold State Museum . In 1889 Oskar Münsterberg was baptized as a Protestant. When he turned his back on Detmold in 1893, he made generous donations to the museum.

He completed his interrupted studies in 1896 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . With his work "Japan's precious metal trading from 1542-1854", he graduated as Dr. phil.

In 1906 Münsterberg became director of the liberal National-Zeitung , from 1909 director of publishing in Leipzig and in 1912 director of the W. Hagelberg printing company in Berlin.

In 1913 he married Helen geb. Rice, with whom he had a son (Hugo, born 1916) and two daughters (Mary Anne and Elisabeth). He died on April 12, 1920 in Berlin.

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Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Münsterberg  - Sources and full texts

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Heinz Sauer: The Detmold House, Hornsche Straße 38 and its history in the mirror of historicism .
  2. ^ A b c Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors / Archive Bibliographia Judaica . S. 220 .