Paul Leemann-van Elck

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Paul Leemann-van Elck , born Paul Leemann (born August 25, 1884 in Riesbach , † February 23, 1960 in Goldbach ZH ) was a Swiss wine merchant who became important as a collector of book printing and as an author on subjects related to printing.

Live and act

Paul Leemann was the son of the businessman Gustav Adolf Leemann and his wife Henriette, née Escher. He graduated from the commercial school in Zurich , took over his father's wine import business in 1903 and undertook extensive business trips in Europe. In 1920 he married Charlotte van Elck, whose name he has carried since then.

After selling his company in 1927, he built up an important collection of valuable book prints and worked as a writer. He was the author of several works on the art of printing and collaborated with the New German Biography . The Swiss Bibliophile Society made him an honorary member.

Leemann-van Elck presented studies on Christoph Froschauer , Christoph Froschauer the Younger , Matthias Stumpf , Salomon Gessner and Anton Graff , among others .

Works

  • Salomon Gessner. His life picture with descriptive lists of his literary and artistic works. Zurich and Leipzig: Orell Füssli 1930 (= monographs on Swiss art 6).
  • The Gessner office in Zurich in the 16th century . Zurich: Swiss Bibliophile Society 1940
  • The Froschauer store. Zurich's famous printing house in the 16th century. A contribution to the history of printing on the occasion of the half-millennium celebration of its invention . Zurich and Leipzig: Orell Füssli 1940
  • Judith Gessner, the wife of the idyllic poet and painter Salomon Geßner . With a selection of her family letters. Zurich and Leipzig: Orell Füssli 1942
  • The economic and cultural importance of book printing in Switzerland. A contribution to the history of the art of printing. Zurich: Orell Füßli, 1945
  • The Bible collection in the Großmünster in Zurich . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag 1945
  • The Zurich book illustration from its beginnings to around 1850 . Zurich: Swiss Bibliophile Society 1952

literature

  • List of writings and essays by Paul Leemann-van Elck . Zurich: Orell Füssli 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raffael Keller: Paul Leemann-van Elck. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 29, 2007 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Leemann-van Elck: My way as a collector. Supplement: Bibliography on the history of printing in Zurich [= Library of the Swiss Bibliophile. Bibliotheque du Bibliophile Suisse. Series 1. Volume 2]. Bern 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Leemann-van Elck, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leemann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss wine merchant and author on the art of printing
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesbach
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1960
Place of death Goldbach ZH