Publishing house CA Schwetschke & Sohn

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CA Schwetschke & Sohn was a publishing company that existed from 1729 to 1934 in Halle (Saale) , Braunschweig and Berlin . The publishing program mainly comprised academic books and magazines from the fields of theology, law, philosophy, philology, medicine and natural sciences. In some cases, scholarly literature was also published.

Publishing history and publishing program

Beginning of the publishing house in Halle (1729 to 1852)

The founder of the publishing house, Johann Georg Klemm , acquired the privilege of setting up a bookshop in Halle on July 1, 1729. Klemm was mainly active as a retail bookseller, but sometimes also as a publishing bookseller. For example, he published treatises by the French theologian François Fénelon and the lawyer Johann Lorenz Fleischer .

From 1737, his successor, Carl Hermann Hemmerde, devoted himself not only to the product range but also to expanding the publishing program. He misplaced u. a. Works by the theologians Johann Jacob Rambach , Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten and Johann Salomo Semler as well as the philosophers Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Georg Friedrich Meier , the physician Johann Gottlob Krüger , the natural scientist Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and the legal scholars Christoph Weidlich and Johann Friedrich Eisenhart . Some works of aesthetics were also published; The Messiah poem by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock should be emphasized .

Hemmerde's successor, Carl August Schwetschke , succeeded in binding other important authors to the publisher from 1788 onwards. So he moved z. B. Works by the chemist Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner , the historian Peter Friedrich Kanngießer (1774–1833), the mineralogist Christian Keferstein and the lawyers Carl August Tittmann , Christoph Christian von Dabelow and Christian Julius Ludwig Steltzer (1758–1831). The authors of the Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung published by Gotthilf Heinrich Schnee (1761–1830) and appearing from 1803 included z. B. the physician Samuel Hahnemann . The journal Archiv des Criminalrechts was published by the Würzburg law professor Gallus Aloysius Caspar Kleinschrod (1762-1824) and appeared - with interruptions - from 1798 to 1857.

In 1829 the publisher's son Carl Ferdinand Schwetschke joined the publishing house as a partner; after his death in 1843 his brother Dr. Carl Gustav Schwetschke the publishing house until 1851. During this time Gottfried Bernhardys Suidae Lexicon. Graecae et latine , Georg Wilhelm Freytag's Lexicon arabico-latinum and a work edition of Reformer writings , the Corpus Reformatorum (Edd. Bretschneider & Bindseil) , were published, starting with the writings of Philipp Melanchthon .

Relocation of the publishing house to Braunschweig (1852 to 1900)

In 1851 the publishing house was sold to Moritz Bruhn , who relocated the place of business to Braunschweig on September 1, 1852. Bruhn expanded the scientific publishing program further: Under his aegis, z. B. Works by theologians Michael Baumgarten , Eduard Reuss (1804-1891) and Ewald Rudolf Stier , the classical philologists Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch and Karl Viktor Müllenhoff , the natural scientist Heinrich Limpricht , Moritz Rühlmann , James Sheridan Muspratt , Friedrich Stohmann and Wilhelm Henneberg , the astronomer Julius Schmidt , the physician Ludwig Krahmer and the legal scholars Friedrich Mommsen and Eduard Osenbrüggen . We would like to highlight Wilhelm Giesebrecht's important and influential history of the German Empire , Heinrich Brunn's history of Greek artists and Otto Stobbe's legal sources , the first volume in a history of German law planned by Georg Beseler . The journal General Monthly for Science and Literature (published 1850-1854) was edited by Johann Gustav Droysen , Karl Viktor Müllenhoff and Justus Olshausen . To a wider audience, the popular, posthumously erstveröffentlichte font turned From My Life by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (called "Goethe-Tischbein").

The publisher's son Harald Bruhn joined the publishing house as a partner in 1872; from 1876 he was the sole owner of the publishing house. In 1885 he sold the bookstore to the Braunschweig booksellers Wiegandt and Eugen Appelhans . Wiegandt left the company soon afterwards.

Last years of publishing in Berlin (1900 to 1934)

Josef Meisl : Haskalah (1919)

On July 1, 1900, Appelhans sold the publishing bookstore (with the exception of some publishing rights) to Emil Loezius from Halle , who relocated the company headquarters to Berlin. According to the interim owner Therese Ad. Loezius (from 1909) and Dr. Martin Rosenthal (from 1911) became Oskar Klebinder's new owner from 1915 . He continued the publishing bookstore until 1934. From 1935 the publisher can no longer be found in the address book of the German book trade.

Literature (selection)

  • Hans-Joachim Kertscher : Halle publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 978-3-929-88726-6 .
  • Wolfgang Lent: News from a publishing estate - On the history of the science publisher CA Schwetschke & Sohn and its publisher Moritz Bruhn (1851 - 1876). In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, Volume 17, pp. 59–99, ISBN 978-3-447-05858-2 (especially pp. 61–70: Complete overview of the publishing history).
  • Erich Neuss : Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933. Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933.
  • Ute Schneider: Schwetschke & Sohn, CA In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. Volume VII, 2nd edition 2007, Verlag Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2007, p. 34.
  • Reinhard Würffel: Lexicon of German publishers. 1071 AZ publishers from 1545–1945 and 2800 signets. Verlag Grotesk, Berlin 2000, pp. 266f., ISBN 978-3-980-31471-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 21f. mwNew.
  2. ↑ See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 22–34 with additional information.
  3. ↑ See Hans-Joachim Kertscher: Hallesche publishing houses of the Enlightenment epoch: the publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke. Hallescher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, pp. 34-105, especially pp. 57f., 80ff. mwNew.
  4. ↑ Closer Stephan Tausch: GA Kleinschrod and the “Archive of Criminal Law”. To the success story of a magazine. In: New legal weekly. Frankfurt a. M. 2006, p. 571ff. mwNew.
  5. ↑ Cf. Erich Neuß: Gebauer-Schwetschke: History of a German printing and publishing house 1733-1933. Gebauer-Schwetschke publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1933, p. 129ff. mwNew.
  6. ↑ See Wolfgang Lent: News from a publishing estate - On the history of the science publisher CA Schwetschke & Sohn and its publisher Moritz Bruhn (1851–1876). In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, Volume 17, pp. 66-69, 71ff. mwNew.
  7. ↑ See Wolfgang Lent: News from a publishing estate - On the history of the science publisher CA Schwetschke & Sohn and its publisher Moritz Bruhn (1851 - 1876) . In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, Volume 17, pp. 69f. mwNew.
  8. ↑ See Reinhard Würffel: Lexicon of German publishers. 1071 publishers from AZ from 1545 - 1945 and 2800 signets. Verlag Grotesk, Berlin 2000, p. 267. The Braunschweiger Appelhans Verlag , co-founded by Eugen Appelhans, still exists today, see p. 30 and the publisher's website .