Theodor Enslin

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Theodor Enslin

Theodor Johann Christian Friedrich Enslin (born November 18, 1787 in Sulz Abbey near Dombühl , † May 22, 1851 in Berlin ) was a German bookseller , bibliographer and publisher .

Life

He was the son of the Protestant pastor Friedrich Enslin and his wife Juliane Dorothea Enslin, née Brenhold. He lost his father at the age of six. At Löflund in Stuttgart Enslin did an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then worked as an assistant in Göttingen and Leipzig . In 1817 he founded a bookstore in Berlin, which after a few years developed into a publishing house. In 1824 he expanded the business to include a branch in Landsberg an der Warthe , and the range business was sold in 1827.

In 1818, Enslin married the daughter of the town judge of Gransee , Henriette Emilie Küster. With her he had two daughters and five sons. The city of Leipzig granted him honorary citizenship in 1834 . From 1835 to 1838 Enslin was the head of the German Booksellers Association , and remained a member of the committee until his death. In this position he also made an outstanding contribution to the building of the booksellers' stock exchange building. He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge for Resistance .

In 1851 the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin honored him on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a bookseller with the award of an honorary doctorate in philosophy . Enslin died that same year at the age of 64. His third son Adolph then took over the company.

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Enslin's publishing program specialized in science , medicine and school books . In addition to his work as a bookseller, he was also active in bibliography. He published extensive book catalogs listing new publications in a wide variety of specialist fields. A selection:

  • Berlinischer literarischer Anzeiger (published monthly, 6 years 1817–1822)
  • Library of Fine Sciences (1821)
  • Bibliotheca theologica (1823)
  • Forest and Hunting Science Library (1824)
  • Library of Action Sciences (1824)
  • Library of War Studies (1824)
  • Bibliotheca philosophica (1824)
  • Bibliotheca architectonica (1825)
  • Bibliotheca auctorum classicor, et graecor et latinor (1825)
  • Bibliotheca oeconomica (1825)
  • Bibliotheca veterinaria (1825)
  • Bibliotheca philologica (1826)

Many of these works were later reprinted because they met with a great response from the audience. Thus the library of the beautiful sciences, or directory of the most excellent novels, plays, poems , as it was called by its full name, published in Germany up to the middle of 1821 , was praised by the critics and was sold out in a short time. Wilhelm Engelmann in particular , who had learned the book trade at Enslin in Berlin, continued this and other works and looked after the publishing house in Leipzig.

The family name, based on paper-related companies, lived on for a long time in Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag (also spelled: Enßlin), founded in Reutlingen in 1818 by Jacob Noah Ensslin . Laiblin was an entrepreneurial family in the region that later became Louis Laiblin . In 1837 Jacob renamed the publishing house with the double name, Paul Hermann Laiblin was his son-in-law. The publishing house only went up in 2000 in the Arena publishing house .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publishing history in the diploma thesis "The image of India in the youth books of Ensslin & Laiblin Verlag", by Hanna Maria Ofner, University of Vienna 2011, chap. 2.1
personal data
SURNAME Enslin, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enslin, Theodor Johann Christian Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, bibliographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulz Abbey near Dombühl
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1851
Place of death Berlin