Wilhelm Henckel
Wilhelm Eduard Henckel (born April 17, 1825 in Burg (near Magdeburg) , † November 30, 1910 in Munich ) was a German bookseller, translator, publisher and publicist.
Live and act
Henckel , son of a craftsman from Burg near Magdeburg (today's federal state of Saxony-Anhalt) and a mother from a Huguenot family (Rollard), was given to a relative in St. Petersburg when he was nine . He was called Vasily Egorowitsch Genkel . There he received his education in the German St. Petri School and from 1840 learned the trade of bookseller in the German bookstore from Heinrich Schmitzdorff. Years of traveling later led him to Leipzig and Switzerland . There he met his future wife. Returning to St. Petersburg a year earlier, in 1854 he became a partner in the publishing bookstore AA Smirdin (syn) & Co. Around 1862 Henckel founded his own publishing company Kontora knigoprodavca-izdatelja in Petersburg , in which prose works by Russian writers of the 1850s and 1860s, translations of French and German literature, almanacs by Russian artists and the newspaper Nedelja appeared. In 1872 he left Russia - apparently for political reasons - with an unknown destination, in 1876 he returned and worked for Moritz Ossipowitsch Wolff 's St. Petersburg publishing company for about 2 years .
Henckel finally left Russia in 1878 with his wife Emmy (née Göldi). They settled in Munich. From his new place of residence until his death in 1910, Henckel reported to German readers on literary, artistic, scientific, political and economic life in Russia. From Munich, he translated and popularized works by contemporary Russian writers into German, for example, Viktor Petrovich Burenin , Dostoyevsky , Garshin , Nikolay Kostomarov , Pavel Ivanovich Kowalewski , Yakov Petrovich Polonsky , IN Potapenkow , Saltykov-Shchedrin , Leo Tolstoy , Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev and publications by numerous Russian journalists. Henckel was a member of the German Writers' Association.
literature
- Roswitha Loew: Wilhelm Henckel: bookseller - translator - publicist. From the history of German-Russian cultural relations in the 19th century . Frankfurt am Main, Lang 1995, ISBN 3-631-49265-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Henckel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henckel, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henckel, Wilhelm Eduard; Genkel, Wassili Egorowitsch (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bookseller, publisher, translator of Russian literature into German, German-Russian cultural relations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castle (near Magdeburg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1910 |
| Place of death | Munich |