Wilhelm Birett

Wilhelm Birett (born July 7, 1793 in Amberg , † April 30, 1837 in Augsburg ) was a German bookseller.

Life

Wilhelm Birett was born as the son of the royal Bavarian councilor and lawyer at the Regenkreis Appellationshof .

He attended grammar school (today: Erasmus grammar school ) in Amberg, but in 1808 lost the sight of his right eye in an accident. His parents let him train as a businessman in Ansbach and he then went to Munich as a businessman and from there to Augsburg.

In 1825 he founded Birett'sche Antiquariats-Buchhandlung with the support of the director and librarian Daniel Eberhard Beyschlag (1759–1835). In just twelve years he succeeded in making this one of the most respected in Germany, which was respected even by the famous American bookstores in America.

In addition to his commercial activity, he was also a poor welfare councilor and municipal representative.

After his death, Fidelis Butsch continued to run the business, having been managing director since it was founded in 1825.

Memberships

• In 1830 he became a member and on November 12, 1835 a committee member of the Historical Association of the Upper Danube District of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Works

• Directory of the library left behind by Professor Dr. Holzmann, which is sold for cash at the attached cheap prices by Wilhelm Birett. St. Anna Street . LD No. 253. Augsburg, 1826.
• Joseph Paul of Cobres ; Wilhelm Birett: Directory of the books of the famous natural history library of Weiland Mr. JP Ritters v. Cobres, whose sale is concerned with cheap, very reduced prices, by Wilhelm Birett in Augsburg . Augsburg [approx. 1828].
• List of books, magazines, copper and lithographic works, including maps from the library of Queen Charlotte Augusta Mathilde von Würtemberg . SL, 1829.
• Catalogus librorum from inventa typographia usque ad annum 1530 Imprint: Auction: Dec. 10 ff. 1832 by Wilhelm Birett . Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Wilhelm Birett, 1832.
• XI. Directory of 250 different manuscripts on parchment and paper from the Middle Ages and the following centuries, then 1591 works in folio from various scientific subjects, especially theology, history, philology, jurisprudence, including those on May 28, 1833 and the following days in the Auctions institution for books and works of art to be publicly auctioned off to the highest bidder . Augsburg 1833.
• Directory of a collection of medical inaugural dissertations, which can be obtained from the Birettische Antiquariatsbuchhandlung F. Butsch in Augsburg . Augsburg 1843.

literature

Wilhelm Birett in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 15th year, 1837, 1st part. Weimar 1839. p. 514 f.