Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm

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Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm (born November 6, 1758 in Tübingen ; † July 7, 1823 there ) was a German printer and publisher.

WH Schramm was matriculated as a printer in Tübingen on October 7, 1778 and married Catharina Elisabeth Metz in 1778. Schrammsche Druckerei was located at Kronenstrasse 6 and 8 in Tübingen from around 1751 to 1824.

The most important works of the Schramm printing company are the folio and hand bibles as well as the gnomon by Johann Albrecht Bengel .

His father Johann Heinrich Philipp Schramm published the first and second editions of the magnificent Folio Bible in 1748 (with 862 large foil pages) and 1769 (with 1162 pages), and he himself published the third edition in 1788 (with 1212 pages). It is a magnificent work, similar to the famous old Biblia 1591 at Georg Gruppenbach in Tübingen, the "Luther Bible ao 41 faithfully reprinted".

The editions of the Gnomon by Johann Albert Bengel were published by father and son Schramm in 1742 (1208 pages), 1759 (1343), 1773 (1512 pages with picture of Bengel) and 1788. The Gnomon by Bengel was probably the most famous theological work of that time, and Before every sermon the Swabian pastors should study the gnomon up to the 20th century.

The family of Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm

The beautiful family picture of WH Schramm and his first wife has been preserved.

The Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm family is shown on the oil painting from around 1795. Left to right:

  • The daughter Christiane Barbara Schramm, married. Kurz (then still Kurtz, 1789–1830) mother of Hermann Kurz and grandmother of Isolde Kurz
  • The wife Catharina Elisabeth Schramm, b. Metz (1747–1787)
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm
  • The daughter Elisabeth Luise Schramm, married. Geß (1785-1822)
  • Wilhelmine Friederike Schramm, married. Mohr de Sylva (1787–1864)

Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm has after the death of his wife Cath. Elisabeth Metz married again in 1787, namely Friederike Stein (1779–1825). Again three children come from this marriage:

  • The daughter Friederike Elisabeth, b. 1799, married Hermann Conrad Ehmann; her son Karl Ehmann became the designer of the Alb water supply.
  • The daughter Caroline Schramm, b. 1799, was engaged to the future pastor Carl Vogel. But she died shortly afterwards.
  • The youngest child, the son Heinrich Schramm (1801–1849), studied theology and became a pastor in Mühlen am Neckar and later in Neckargartach.

literature

  • Heinrich Mohr de Sylva: The academic book printers Schramm in Tübingen from 1728 to 1823. In: Tübinger Blätter 1967, pp. 9-21

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Heinrich Philipp Schramm (1692–1776) from Petershagen in Westphalia was a printer in the Cottaische Buchdruckerei and became the owner of his own printing shop by marrying Anna Sara Franck, the widow of the printer Hiob Franck, in 1729. [After Hans Widmann: Tübingen als Verlagsstadt, 1971, JCM Mohr (Paul Siebeck)]. Note: According to the university statutes of the University of Tübingen, the number of bookbinders, booksellers and book printers was precisely defined. The operations were continued through the descendants or through remarriage of the widows. [Source: Exhibition catalog 1998 "A city of books, Tübingen 1498 - 1998"]
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1823
Place of death Tübingen