Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (born December 26, 1739 in Breslau ; † September 4, 1806 there ) was a German bookseller and publisher.
Life
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn was the son of the bookseller and editor Johann Jacob Korn (1702–1768) and his wife Susanne Margarethe née Ihlenfeld and began his training in his father's company. In 1757 he came to Poland to practice with Michael Gröll in Warsaw . In the following four years he made contacts on the Polish book market. Back in Breslau, he took over his father's bookstore in 1762. In addition to the German-language books intended for the Prussian market, he began to publish books in the Polish language as well as in other Eastern European languages.
In 1763 he renamed his company "Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn". The company existed in Breslau until 1945, the last owner was Richard von Bergmann-Korn, Wilhelm's great-great-great-grandson, who died in 1945 and named the company Bergstadtverlag . In 1950 the bookstore was re-established under the name Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn .
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn was also the editor of the Schlesische Zeitung . In Polish, he published works by Klemens Janicki , Franciszek Siarczyński and Jan Daniel Janocki , as well as school books and literature for young people - mostly translated from French.
He had representations in Warsaw with Michael Gröll , in Lemberg and in Posen . From 1790 he handed over management of the company to his son Johann Gottlieb Korn (1765–1837).
On March 4, 1793, the company received a permit to operate a printing press. Since the turn of the 1800s, the company had a collaboration with the philologist Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie , who had lived in Wroclaw since 1798.
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn married the daughter of a Breslau civil servant Karoline Elisabeth born in 1762. Pfitzner and was the father of three sons: Johann Gottlieb, Friedrich Wilhelm and Julian Ferdinand.
Johann Gottlieb Korn inherited the company in 1806 and continued to run it under the same name.
Publications
- Joseph Baretti among other things: Description of the manners and customs in Italy. Translated from the second English edition and accompanied by comments and additions by Johann Gottlieb Schummel , Professor of History at the Ritter Academie zu Lignitz. Part 1, Korn, Breslau 1781. (Digitized by University of Halle)
- Joseph Baretti among other things: Description of the manners and customs in Italy. Translated from the second English edition and accompanied by comments and additions by Johann Gottlieb Schummel , Professor of History at the Ritter Academie zu Lignitz. Part 2, Korn, Breslau 1781. (digitized version of the University of Halle)
literature
- Polski Słownik Biograficzny. Volume 14.
- Hans Jessen: Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (1739–1806). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. (Journalism-historical contributions, Volume 4) Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 48–54.
- Klaus Ullmann: Silesia Lexicon. Flechsig, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-393-8 .
- Ulrich Schmilewski: Published by Korn in Breslau: a brief history of an important publisher from 1732 until today . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-87057-140-3 , p. 25 .
- Ernst Scheyer : Collection of paintings Wilh. Gottl. Korn in Wroclaw . Breslau: Kom., 1930
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Gabriel Nowack : Silesian Writer's Lexicon or bio-bibliographical directory of writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century. First issue. Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1838. (online)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korn, Wilhelm Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1806 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |