Wilhelm Engelmann

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Wilhelm Engelmann (born August 1, 1808 in Lemgo , † December 23, 1878 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher and bookseller.

Life

Engelmann was the son of a bookseller in Lemgo, who later moved to Leipzig. There Wilhelm Engelmann attended the Thomas School and planned an academic career. Due to the early death of his father, however, he was forced to seek early independence. He did an apprenticeship with the bookseller Theodor Enslin and made numerous valuable business contacts here. After completing his apprenticeship, Engelmann worked for Johann Georg Heyse in Bremen, where he also dealt with the printing industry. He then worked with Carl Gerold in Vienna and with Varrentrapp in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1833 he returned to Leipzig and took over his father's business. His acquaintanceships in scientific circles gave him a rapid upturn by publishing their works: Georg Gottfried Gervinus , Georg Weber , Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg and Albert von Kölliker shaped his focus on medicine, history and philology. An important series was the Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum , a bibliography of classical philology from 1700 until his death in 1878, which follows the Bibliotheca graeca, Bibliotheca latina and Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis by Johann Albert Fabricius .

Engelmann received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena . After his death, the business passed into the hands of his widow Christiane Therese Engelmann, née Hasse (1820–1907), and his eldest son Rudolf Engelmann (1841–1888). Another son of Engelmann was the physiologist, biologist and zoologist Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (1843-1909).

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SURNAME Engelmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1878
Place of death Leipzig