Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt

Rheinischer Antiquarius, source: X / 3676, Hamburg State Library

Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt (* May 5, 1790 in Hadamar ; † June 11, 1862 in Koblenz ) came from a bookseller , printer and publisher family . From 1824 until his death in 1862 he was the owner of RF Hergt's bookstore and printing house in Koblenz.

His father was the pharmacist , medical assessor and bookseller Franz Christian Nikolaus Hergt (born December 3, 1760 in Zaisenhausen , Grand Duchy of Baden District Office, Bretten, † May 14, 1838 in Hadamar), who in 1814 also acquired a printing and publishing house in Koblenz. Following his 1796 Founded in Hadamar scholar bookstore , he gave 1815 acquired last year Huber'schen book printing and publishing house in Koblenz the name New scholarly bookstore .

Life

Rudolph Friedrich Christian had been managing director since 1821. From this year on, many publishing products also bear this company name. In 1824, his father even completely transferred his company to him. On January 1, 1830, Rudolph Friedrich Hergt officially changed the company name, which had meanwhile been renamed Neue Gelehrten-Buchhandlung & Druckerei, to the bookstore and book printer of RF Hergt . In 1832, the new owner also bought the publishing rights to the printing company Bernard Hériot (1768–1833) in Koblenz, and in 1834 the printing business of Mr. B. Hériot, who had since died. He thus owned two printing plants with modern machine equipment. In addition, he was also active in publishing to an increasing extent. He became particularly well-known through the publication of the monumental work Der Rheinische Antiquarius (39 volumes 1845–1871) by Johann Christian von Stramberg, which unfortunately remained unfinished . RF Hergt was also successful in business, as he held all the important sales outlets along the Rhine . (Based on: History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume I, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 613).

After his death in 1862, the business was continued under the previous name RF Hergt by his widow and their children, Katharina, Barbara, Ludwig Christian and Victor Joseph Hergt . In August 1888, the company was then transferred to the Frankfurt Jaeger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, owner Karl Wolfgang Koenitzer. The previous owners Ludwig Christian and Victor Joseph Hergt then had the previous company name deleted from the commercial register .

Rudolf Friedrich Christian Hergt (also the Hergt'sche dynasty) belong - together with Hériot , Hölscher , Röhling , Krabben and Baedeker (Bädeker) - to the great Koblenz publishers of the 19th century.

literature

• Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers - German book printers. Contributions to a company history of the German book trade, Berlin 1902, pp. 425–426 (reprint of the Berlin and Eberswalde edition 1802–1908: 6 volumes in one volume: Hildesheim, New York 1979)
• Max Bär : History of the City of Koblenz 1814 - 1914, Koblenz 1922, p. 356 f.
• Wilhelm Josef Becker: Overview of the history of the older Koblenz printing works, publishers, bookshops, the entire press and literary life (since 1700) . Part 1: In: Zeitschrift für Heimatkunde von Coblenz und Umgebung 1 (1920) and Part 2: In: Zeitschrift für Heimatkunde of the administrative district of Coblenz and the adjacent areas of (1921)
• Fritz Michel: The beginnings of Koblenz book and newspaper printing . In: Rheinische Heimatblätter 2.1925
• Karl Zimmermann: Johann Caspar Huber, the first bookseller privileged by the Elector of Trier. In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt 2, Koblenz 1925, No. 4-6
• Printing and publishing of the Krabben'schen Buchdruckerei (ed., Reprint) of the Hergt'schen edition of 1851: Christian von Stramberg's Rheinischer Antiquarius Coblenz, die Stadt . 1. Volume, 1851 [here in a slightly modified new edition and with extensive forewords by Wegeler - Schwarz / 1906 and H. Bellinghausen / 1926]. Edited and edited by Hans Bellinghausen, Coblenz 1926
• Helmut Kampmann: Koblenz press chronicle. 80 newspapers from three centuries, Koblenz 1988, pp. 107, 116, 129 - 122
• Otto Renkhoff : Hergt, Franz Christian Nikolaus, pharmacist; * Zaisenhausen near Bretten December 3, 1760, + Hadamar May 14, 1838 ....., in: Nassauische Biographie - short biographies from 13 centuries. Second, completely revised and expanded edition, Wiesbaden 1992, p. 304.
• Ralph Reinhold: Overview of the historical development of the book trade in the Koblenz administrative district . In: Masterpieces. 2000 years of handicrafts on the Middle Rhine, Volume 9: Books. Catalog for the exhibition of the Koblenz Chamber of Crafts and the Koblenz State Museum. Koblenz 1992
• Gert Hagelweide (Ed.): Schmidt, Rudolf: Hergt, R (udolph) F (riedrich) , in: SCM., Vol. 3, 1905, pp. 425-426. In: Literature for the German-speaking Press, A Bibliography: From the Beginnings to 1970. Volume 11: Biographical Literature, F - H. Editors, journalists, publicists and publishers, illustrators, caricaturists, press photographers, print shop owners, etc. KG Saur, Munich 2001, p 334.
• Historical Commission of the German Book Trade (Ed.): The Koblenz bookseller Rudolf Hergt ..., in: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries, Volume I: Das Kaiserreich 1871-1918. Frankfurt am Main 2003, here p. 613.
• KG Saur (Ed.): Hergt, Franz Christian Nikolaus (* 1760. + 1838), pharmacist, publisher, book printer, mayor -Renkhoff - III, 131 , In: German Biographical Index, 3rd cumulative and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2004
• Gert Hagelweide (Hrsg.): Hergt, Rudolph Friedrich, in: Literatur zur Deutschensprachigen Presse, Eine Bibliographie, Volume 17: Personenregister G - K (Dortmund Contributions to Newspaper Research 35), KG Saur, Munich 2007, p. 184.

Publishing products of the Neue Gelehrtenbuchhandlung

• The Neue Schehrtenbuchhandlung was run from 1815 to 1823 by the father Franz Christian Nikolaus Hergt.
• Joseph von Görres: The handover of the address of the city of Coblenz and the landscape to Se. Majesty the King: in public audience with Sr. Highness the Prince State Chancellor on January 12, 1818; as a report , [Koblenz]: [Hergt], 60 pp.
• Public Anzeiger (1817 - 1824) , Koblenz, printed by: Pauli, Hergt since 1820 (New Scholar Bookshop)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Cölln: Paperback for travelers on the Rhine. (Pocket book / for / benefit and pleasure / for / travelers on the Rhine. / From / Fr. W. von Coelln. / Koenlicher Prussischen / Police = Secretair. / With seven views of the Rhine, a picture of the Roman / grave of Hispaus zu Coblenz, and a / Map of Lake Constance, in lithography) . Coblenz, 1821, 13.0 × 10.5 cm, IV, 7 ills., 1 map of Lake Constance, 334 p. In the Neue Gelehrtenbuchhandlung [Hergt]
• Franz Xavier Pereville: Short lessons in the real knowledge worth knowing / for the youth, initially for the lower grades of the high school in Coblenz , Coblenz 1829 [!], Verlag der neue Schehrten-Buchhandlung (Hergt)
• Jos. J. Caspari: Textbook of planar geometry for high schools and higher educational institutions , Coblenz o. J., Verlag der Neue Gelehrten - Buchhandlung (Hergt)

Publishing products until 1862

• RF Hergt: Franz Xavier Péreville: Short lessons in the most worthwhile real- life knowledge for young people, initially for the lower classes of the Coblenz high school. With 11 plates , Koblenz: RF Hergt, 1829
• Heinrich Kühn: German breviary - one of prayer and devotional book for pastors and every good Christian: furnished to the canonical Tagzeiten of .. . Coblenz: Hergt 1832
• Nikolaus Lentz: Brief addresses at the ceremony of holy baptism and at the wedding or blessing of Christian bride and groom . Coblenz: Hergt 1833
• Charles Hodges: Translated and original poems (Charles Hodges; 1) . Coblenz: Hergt (1834)
• RF Hergt: Anton Joseph Richter: De gravitate, ejus vi morborum et profligandorum et provocandorum, nec non de corum aestimatione et cura commentatio, in Academica Borussica Rhenana praemio ornata . Koblenz 1834, 212 pp.
• Rhein- und Moselzeitung (1834 - 1850) , Koblenz, Verlag Hergt (Friedrich Hergt, since January 18, 1834 to July 1850, previously Verlag B. Heriot and widow Heriot)
• The Wanderer on the Rheine and the Moselle - non-profit weekly paper for all stands (1834 - 1849 ), Koblenz, publisher and editor: J. Hölscher, printing: Hergt, Altenhof
• Hergt (Ed.): The Holy Scriptures of the New Testament. Translated and provided with explanatory notes by a pastor of the Diocese of Trier . Koblenz 1837, XIV, 466 pp.
• Hergt: Carl Hergt: History of the two cholera epidemics d. southern France in d. J. 1834 a. 1835 , Coblenz 1838, size 12 (7 1/2 sheets)
• Peter Joseph Devora: The Pilgrimage to the Sacred Rock in 1844 . Coblenz: Hergt 1844, 7 pp.
• RF Hergt (printer and publisher): Christian von Stramberg : Ehrenbreitstein, Feste und Thal / Historically and topographically represented by Chr. Von Stramberg , = part of the Rheinischer Antiquarius , Coblenz 1845 [1]
• Rudolph Friedrich Hergt (Ed.): Koblenz and its surroundings, portrayed for strangers and locals , Koblenz: Rudolph Friedrich Hergt, 1845, (special print from: Malten, HM: Handbook for travelers on the Rhine, on the route between Mainz and Cologne. Darmstadt u. Wiesbaden: Gustav Georg Lange, 1844, pp. 231–317)
• Rudolf Friedrich Christian Hergt (Ed.): Christian von Stramberg: Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius, who represents the most important and pleasant geographical, historical and political peculiarities of the whole Rhine river from its outflow into the sea to its origin. From a researcher in historical things , Koblenz 1845 ff. [Series with 39 volumes and handouts ] Google book search
• Rudolf Friedrich Hergt (ed.): For the third February in Coblenz , [title page with Prussian eagle vignette. Patriotic - Borussophile songs on a patriotic holiday, probably to commemorate the anti-Napoleonic wars]. Koblenz 1846
• Hergt: Three treatises on contemporary subjects in sermon form, which can be seen as an interesting Quodlibet / ed. from a cath. Clergy on the Hunsrück , Coblenz 1849
• RF Hergt: Report on the establishment of a Christian charity cooperative from h. Vincenz von Paul zu Koblenz - Committee of the Cooperative of H. Vincenz von Paul "Koblenz" . Koblenz [1849] [2]
• Hergt: A [nton] J [osef] R [ichter]: The St. Castor Church in Coblenz, its history, architecture, works of art and monuments: as a souvenir of the restoration of the same in 1848 , Coblenz 1850
• Hergt: Christian von Stramberg: Coblenz, the city , 4 volumes, = part of the Rheinischer Antiquarius , Coblenz 1853 - [3]
• Georg Wilhelm Hoffmann: The new percussion rifle and its use . Coblenz: Hergt 1825, 16 pp., 2nd edition: 1852, 31 pp.
• Hergt: Johann Baptist Berger: The victory of truth / by Gedeon von der Heide , Coblenz 1853 [4]
• Georg Wilhelm von Hoffmann: From new and old times . Coblenz: Hergt 1854, 13 pp.
• The holy way of the cross of Jesus Christ as the way of love and salvation . Coblenz, 2nd edition, Hergt 1854, 155 pp.
• Christopher Browerius, Jacob Masen: Metropolis Ecclesiae Trevericae / quae Metropolitanae ... . (Browerii et maseni em. Auxit ed. Christianus; 2 / Metropolis ecclesiae Treverica 1 and 2). Confluentibus: Hergt (1856)
• Three poems by the Imperial Royal Field Marshal Count Radetzky dedicated to the memory of a Prussian officer . Coblenz (ao), Hergt (ao): 1858, 16 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: The castle house and the former monastery at Namedy (A contribution to the special history of the Rhineland) . Coblenz: Hergt 1858, 36 pp.
• Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmagno: The Moselle songs . Coblenz: 2nd complete Ed., Hergt 1859, 128 pp.
• Hergt: Anton Joseph Richter: Sanct Castor zu Coblenz, as a minster, monastery and parish church, their history (from the 9th to 19th centuries), architecture, works of art, monuments and restoration 2. according to indicated. Sources redesigned wes. verb. u. continuous probably edition , Coblenz 1854
• Rud. Friedr. Hergt (print and publisher): Philipp Krementz: Das Haus Gottes, a sermon, delivered on December 22nd, 1853 at the inauguration of the local Carmelite Church and in memory of that day of the Catholic military community of Coblenz, Coblenz 1854 [5]
• Hergt: J. Baumgarten: Handbook of French reading for the upper classes and boarding schools , Coblenz 1857
• Hergt: Theodor Stumpf (Hrsg.): Rhyme games of the journeyman's association in Coblenz. For a journeyman's hospice. 2nd volume with 8 pen drawings , Koblenz: Printed and commissioned by Rud. Friedr. Hergt, 1859
• Hergt: Rhenish Travel Library for Steamship and Railways , Coblenz 1. 1859 -
• Hergt: Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio : Die Mosel - Lieder 2nd revised edition , 128 p. (Series: Rheinische Travel Library for Steamship and Railways) Coblenz 1859
• RF Hergt: Christian von Stramberg: Coblenz, the city. Historically and topographically represented by Chr. Stramberg. First volume. Second (2nd) unaltered impression. 812 p. , [With a portrait of Christian von Stramberg]. = Part of the Rheinischer Antiquarius , Coblenz 1860
• Johann Theodor Meurer: Fifty-seven . Coblenz: Hergt 1861, 163 pp.
• Theodor Stumpf: The French are coming . Coblenz, Hergt in Comm., 1861, 52 pp.

Publishing products from 1863

Book title from 1869, source: Staatsbibl. Hamburg BDc 511

This list contains an excerpt of the publishing products that were published by the widow Hergt and her children after the death of RF Hergt while retaining the company name.

• Christian von Stramberg: Memorable and useful antiquarian, who presents the most important and most pleasant geographical, historical and political peculiarities of the whole Rhine river, from its excursions into the sea to its origins . Coblenz: Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt (continuation of the series from 1863 ff.)
• E. Giersberg: Mathematical Treatises, Part 1 . Coblenz: Hergt (no year)
• Franz Reinhard: Law, state and oath in the currents of our day and Germany's moral development up to the present: with an appendix on Parcival - considered by a Rhenish lawyer . Koblenz: Hergt 1868, 248 pp.
• J. Wegeler : Dictionary of the Coblenz dialect . Rud. Friedr. Hergt: Coblenz 1869
• Matthias Eberhard: On the upcoming general council. Lay address to the Most Revered Bishop of Trier . Coblenz: Hergt 1869, 14 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: Philosophia patrum versibus praes. leoninis, rhythmis Germanicis adiectis, iuventute studiosae hilarter tradita Confluentibus : Hergt 1869, 115 pp.
• Homer's Odyssey . Coblenz: [Hergt] 1871, 179 pp.
• Jola Dominicus: From the Rhenish girl's life . Coblenz: Hergt 1873, 144 pp.
• Elise Knackfuss: Father and Daughter - a small family painting on earth with sky blue . Coblenz: Hergt 1873, 216 pp.
• Two poems by a Catholic Rhinelander from a German heart; 1870-1871 . Coblenz: Hergt in Comm. 1873, 4 sh.
• Coblenzer Volkszeitung (1872-1894), Coblenz, print: Hergt
• Franz Reinhard: Through the shell to the core, from the shadows to the light . Coblenz: Hergt 1873, 64 pp.
• Franz Reinhard: Words of Peace in Stormy Times . Koblenz: Hergtr 1874, 58 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: Catalog of the library of the city of Coblenz . Coblenz: Hergt 1875, 144 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: Coblenz in his dialect and his outstanding personalities . Coblenz: Hergt 1876, 256 p. (Unchanged reprint of the 1876 edition: Dr. Martin Sendet o. Hg., Walluf near Wiesbaden, 1973)
• Julius Wegeler: Philosophia patrum in Latin verses and their translations [main part] 1877 / supplement 1879 . Confluentibus: Hergt 1877/1879
• Franz Berg: The All Saints Chapel near Niederlahnstein, its founder and the deed of foundation - a lighting - . Coblenz: Hergt 1878, 24 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: The castles Rheineck and Olbrück, the castles to Burgbrohl, Namedy and Wassenach, the Schweppenburg and Haus Kray (contributions to the special history of the Rhineland, 1) . Coblenz, 2nd edition: Hergt 1878
• Joseph Strange: News about noble families and estates . Coblenz: Hergt, 1879 - 1879 (volumes 1 and 2)
• Christian von Stramberg: Guide to Christian von Stramberg's Rhenish "Antiquarius" . Coblenz: Hergt 1879, 48 pp.
• Julius Wegeler: The high cathedral pen to Trier (contributions to the special history of the Rhineland, 2) . Coblenz: Hergt 1880

Web links

• Guide to the "Rheinischen Antiquarius von Michael Koelges" (PDF; 785 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Koblenz 47-7-9.24-Hergt