Walther Keller

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Walther Keller (born April 30, 1864 in Stuttgart ; † March 30, 1952 there ) was a German publisher .

Life

Walther Keller, son of the businessman Rudolf Keller (1838–1904) and Emma Schuler (1845–1878), who was born in Tübingen , completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Stuttgart after having passed the Abitur . After working as an assistant in the Schragschen bookstore in Nuremberg , Keller continued his education in Stuttgart and Paris , where he also attended lectures and courses at the Technical University and Sorbonne .

In 1893, Keller and Euchar Nehmann acquired the ailing Franckh'sche publishing house in Stuttgart. Walther Keller initially retained the publisher's literary interpretation. After the establishment of the “Kosmos-Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde” in 1903 and the publication of the magazine “Kosmos” a year later , he turned exclusively to the natural sciences . The success of the magazine, which wanted to bring the scientific knowledge and progress closer to a broad readership, was enormous. In 1912 there were already more than 100,000 subscribers , in 1939 the Franckh publishing house had over 300 employees who supplied the readers of “Kosmos” with, among other things , do -it-yourself telescopes , microscopes and various Kosmos construction sets and educational toys.

Walther Keller, who was appointed court advisor to Württemberg in 1916 and who had seen the rebuilding and rise of the publishing house destroyed in the war after 1945 , died in Stuttgart in 1952 a month before he was 88 years old. In 1950 his son Rolf took over the management of Franckh'schen Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co., which he held until his death in 1987.

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SURNAME Keller, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1952
Place of death Stuttgart