Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz

Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz (born June 26, 1822 in Hamburg ; † June 5, 1901 in Berlin ) was a Berlin bookseller and publisher .

Life

Honor grave , Großgörschenstrasse 12, in Berlin-Schöneberg

The son of Adelbert von Chamisso and Marianne Hertz attended the Friedrich-Werdersche Gymnasium in Berlin and actually wanted to be a painter. Instead, he started his apprenticeship with Stange in Berlin in 1840 and then with Friedrich Johannes Frommann in Jena as a bookseller. In 1844 he worked as an assistant at Perthes , Besser & Mauke in Hamburg. In 1847 Wilhelm Hertz married his cousin Fanny (* 1826; † 1913) in Hamburg and bought the Besser bookstore in Berlin in the same year . In 1848 the son Hans Adolf was born.

In the following decades Wilhelm Hertz published - in addition to scientific works - Theodor Fontane , Emanuel Geibel , Gottfried Keller , Julian Schmidt , Herman Grimm and his friend Paul Heyse . More than a thousand titles were published by Wilhelm Hertz. Just one example: In 1893 the publishing house published the Ursley novel , which was successful in terms of reprints . That was the first major prose work by 29-year-old Ricarda Huch .

In 1879, Wilhelm Hertz headed the German Booksellers Association in Leipzig, after having been on the board since 1854.

In 1875 the son Hans Adolf Hertz became a partner in the Besser bookstore. After the son died in 1895, Wilhelm Hertz sold to Cotta's successor in Stuttgart.

Wilhelm Hertz found his final resting place in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . His grave has been dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honor grave since 1984 .

When his daughter Emma Hertz married in 1879, he was the father-in-law of the Berlin publisher Fritz Springer . The classical philologist Martin Hertz was his brother.

literature

Bernhard Wendt: Hertz, Wilhelm Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 712 ( digitized version ).
Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 3. Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, pp. 431-33: online version
Michael Davidis: The publisher of Wilhelm Hertz. Contributions to a history of literature mediation in the 19th century, in particular to the publishing history of the works of Paul Heyse, Theodor Fontane and Gottfried Keller. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7657-1180-2
Chamisso Society eV : Adelbert von Chamisso
Jürgen Kipp : One hundred years. On the history of a building 1913–2013. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8305-3226-2

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

^ Marianne Hertz - Jewish wife of the Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacob Hertz (Kipp, p. 59, Kammergericht am Kleistpark ).
↑ Perthes, Besser & Mauke has been the company name of the bookstore since 1836, which was run by the heirs of Johann Heinrich Besser.
↑ This is the bookstore of the publisher and antiquarian G. Eichler, which has been in Berlin since 1829 and which was taken over by Wilhelm Besser (* 1809; † 1848) in 1837.
↑ Martin Hertz, the half-brother of Wilhelm Hertz born in 1818 , also died in 1895.

personal data
SURNAME	Hertz, Wilhelm Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hertz, Wilhelm; Hertz, W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 5, 1901
Place of death	Berlin

[A2-1] Marianne Hertz - Jewish wife of the Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacob Hertz (Kipp, p. 59, Kammergericht am Kleistpark ).

[A3-2] Perthes, Besser & Mauke has been the company name of the bookstore since 1836, which was run by the heirs of Johann Heinrich Besser.

[A4-3] This is the bookstore of the publisher and antiquarian G. Eichler, which has been in Berlin since 1829 and which was taken over by Wilhelm Besser (* 1809; † 1848) in 1837.

[A5-4] Martin Hertz, the half-brother of Wilhelm Hertz born in 1818 , also died in 1895.