Peter Conrad Monath

Johann Leonhard Rost, Astronomical Handbook (Nuremberg: PC Monath, 1718).

Peter Conrad Monath (* around 1683 in Nuremberg ; † February 22, 1747 in Vienna ) had been a publisher in his hometown since 1713 and also a publisher in Vienna since 1726.

Life

Peter Conrad Monath, son of a beer and wine store in Nuremberg, founded his own company in 1713, a bookstore in Nuremberg. His specialty became the publishing of astronomical and mathematical works. Among them is the posthumously re-edited main work by Johann Philipp von Wurzelbaus (1651–1725) and the Astronomical Handbook by Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727). In 1730 his publishing house published the historical message from Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750), which provides the most important information about the scholars of Nuremberg to this day. The globes produced by Doppelmayr together with Johann Georg Puschner (1680–1749) were also offered in Vienna through his branch. Sámuel Mikoviny (1700–1750) lived with Monath for the six months he spent in Nuremberg in 1722 to learn from Puschner's engraving, which at that time was replacing illustration with woodcuts . As a result, he published his Nuremberg city views .

In 1726 Monath expanded his business with a branch in Vienna. From 1728 he was an Imperial and Royal Niederläger (wholesaler) there. In 1731, Hocker in Nuremberg published Bibliotheka Heilsbronnensis , sive Catalogus Librorum Omnium, Tam Manuscriptorum, Quam Impressorum, Qui in Celeberrimi Monasterii Heilsbronnensis Bibliotheca Publica Adservsantur by Johann Ludwig Hocker.

From 1739 his son Georg Peter Monath ran the Nuremberg business. He took it over entirely after Monath's death in 1747 and left the Vienna branch to his siblings.

literature

• Johann Goldfriedrich : History of the German book trade. 2. Vol. (1648–1740), p. 2349 ff. (Cf. Kapp / Goldfr. Vol. 2, p. 365).