Samuel Ammon (publisher)

Samuel Ammon (also: Julius Samuel Ammon ; * before 1661 in Heidelberg , † 1707 in Hannover ) was a German court - book printer and publisher of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Life

Samuel Ammon, who was born in Heidelberg, first worked there in 1661 as a printer, then again from 1672 to 1687. Driven from his hometown by the turmoil of the Palatinate War of Succession , Ammon worked in the city of Hanau from 1687 to 1690 .

After the death of under the government of Duke Ernst August as " Princely . Hof-Buchdrucker "title Georg Friedrich Grimm in 1690, Samuel Ammon established a printing company" in Hanover "in 1691," which was immediately raised to a court book printing company "for the royal seat of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . For himself and his people, Ammon got “[rent] free apartment” in place of the later consistorial building “auf dem Brande” , later Brandstrasse, on the southeast corner of Mittelstrasse in Calenberger Neustadt .

A lending library was attached to the Ammonian printing works - also in 1691 .

Shortly afterwards, Samuel Ammon printed and published Leibniz's Codex juris gentium diplomaticus in 1693 .

In 1693 and 1694, Ammon wrote seven letters to Leibniz, which are now part of the world's document heritage .

Samuel Ammon is considered to be the founder of the later Berthold Pokrantz publishing house printing company . He produced around 60 prints in Hanover, 20 of which are considered relevant to the Latin occasional poetry in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the directory of 17th century prints published in the German-speaking area (VD 17).

Successors to Ammon in the family business in Hanover were initially

• 1707 to 1718 Ammon's son, court printer Jakob Daniel Ammon
• 1722 to 1739 court printer Johann Dietrich Ammon
• 1739 to 1749 court printer Johann David Ammon († 1749)

In 1749, the year the last court printer from the Ammon family died, the printer was sold to Georg Heinrich Lorenz Reuther .

Well-known works (selection)

• 1693: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Codex juris gentium diplomaticus

Web links

• Ammon, Samuel (1707) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ammon, Samuel (1707) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Paul Siedentopf (chief editor ): Berthold Pokrantz / book printing, bookbinding and publishing house / address book of Hanover / Hanover, Wagenerstrasse 17 / founded in 1691 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927) , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 128
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Ludwig Grotefend : Samuel Ammon , in ders .: History of the book printing works in the Hanoverian and Braunschweigische Landen. With 9 stone tablets. Hahn'schen Hof bookstore, Hanover. In the colophon : Printed in Hanover by Fr. B. Culemann & Sohn in Junius M.DCCC.XL. [1840], [unpaginated]; Digitized via Google books
4. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : 1723 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 82; limited preview in Google Book search
5. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: 1691 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 68f .; here: p. 69; limited preview in Google Book search
6. ^ Matthias Bollmeyer : Latin Welfenland. A cartography of literary history on Latin occasional poetry in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the 16th and 17th centuries (= Noctes Neolatinae , vol. 20), Hildesheim; Zurich; New York, NY: Olms, 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15113-7 and ISBN 3-487-15113-8 , pp. 578-579; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} David L. Paisey : German book printers, booksellers and publishers 1701-1750 (= contributions to books and libraries , vol. 26), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988, ISBN 978-3-447-02825-7 and ISBN 3-447-02825-4 , p. 3; limited preview in Google Book search