Reinhard Jaspert

Reinhard Richard Jaspert (born July 16, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 6, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German publisher .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, Frankfurt-born Reinhard Jaspert, son of educators and founder of the Children's Village crossroads August Jaspert and Anna, born Waldmann, completed a bank training after high school visit. Reinhard Jaspert married Marianne, nee Braun, in 1930. The marriage had a child. He died in Berlin in 1989 at the age of 84. He was the older brother of the journalist and writer Werner Jaspert.

Professional background

After completing his professional training, Reinhard Jaspert was employed as a bank clerk , and in 1925 he took on a job as a publishing bookseller. From 1952 to 1955, Jaspert chaired the Berlin publishers and booksellers' association. From 1956 to 1959 he was in charge of the German Book Trade Association . Reinhard Jaspert has also acted as a member of the supervisory board of the Berlin booksellers corporation and as a member of the Chamber of Experts for works of literature and music as well as managing director of the riding and jumping school Deutschlandhalle Berlin. Reinhard Jaspert has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade since 1953 .

Reinhard Jaspert, who was in charge of the Safari publishing house, stood out in particular as the publisher of popular scientific and natural history works as well as art volumes. He received the Friedrich Perthes Medal and in 1959 the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

Publications

author

• together with Heinrich Hauser : Canada: Land of the Future in the North: 106 illustrations, 8 maps. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1941
• German romanticism. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1949

editor

• The culture of the Renaissance in Italy. Complete text edition with an appendix from the art of the Renaissance on 80 gravure plates. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1941
• Raffael . Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1941
• History of ancient art. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1942
• Rubens . A Rubens monograph. At the same time an aesthetic of baroque painting. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1942
• Michelangelo : His Life in History and Culture of His Time: The Flowering Period of Art in Florence and Rome. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1943
• Troy, Ithaca, Mycenae. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1943
• Poetry of the world: Germany. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1947
• Thomas Carlyle , The French Revolution. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1948
• together with Karl Scheffler : Venetian painting. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1949
• The world of knowledge. Safari-Verlag, Berlin, 1950 ff. (72 volumes until 1968)
• Greek culture. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1950
• Thoughts and memories of Otto Fürst von Bismarck . Speeches and letters, with an introduction by Theodor Heuss . With 48 plates in gravure printing. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1951
• Architecture. Handbook of Modern Architecture. Safari Verlag, Berlin, 1957
• Humboldt , South American trip. Safari Publishing, 1967

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 485.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 , p. 322.
• Theodor Heuss, Ernst Wolfgang Becker, Martin Vogt: The Federal President: Letters 1954-1959. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029887-1 , pp. 494, 524, 654.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Jaspert in the catalog of the German National Library