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BROCKHAUS, FRIEDRICH ARNOLD (1772-1823)

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BROCKHAUS, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:ARNOLD (1772-1823) , See also:German publisher, was See also:born at See also:Dortmund, on the 4th of May 1772. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:place, and from 1788 to 1793 served an See also:apprenticeship in a See also:mercantile See also:house at See also:Dusseldorf. He then devoted two years at See also:Leipzig to the study of modem See also:languages and literature, after which he set up at Dortmund an See also:emporium for See also:English goods. In 18or he transferred this business to Arnheim, and in the following See also:year to See also:Amsterdam. In 1805, having given up his first See also:line of See also:trade, he began business as a publisher. Two See also:journals projected by him were not allowed by the See also:government to survive for any length of See also:time, and in 18io the complications in the affairs of See also:Holland induced him to return homewards. In 1811 he settled at See also:Altenburg. About three years previously he had See also:purchased the See also:copyright of the Konversations-Lexikon, started in 1796, and in 1810-1811 he completed the first edition of this celebrated See also:work (14th ed. 1901-4). A second edition under his own editor-See also:ship was begun in 1812, and was received with universal favour. His business extended rapidly, and in 1818 Brockhaus removed to Leipzig, where he established a large See also:printing-house. Among the more extensive of his many See also:literary undertakings were the See also:critical periodicals—Hermes, the Literarisches Konversationsblalt (afterwards the Blatter filr literarische Unterhaltung), and the Zeitgenossen, and some large See also:historical and See also:bibliographical See also:works, such as See also:Raumer's Geschichte der See also:Hohenstaufen, and See also:Ebert's Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon.

F. A. Brockhaus died at Leipzig on the loth of See also:

August 1823. The business was carried on by his sons, Friedrich Brockhaus (1800-i865) who retired in 185o, and Heinrich Brockhaus (1804-1874), under whom it was considerably extended. The latter especially rendered See also:great services to literature and See also:science, which the university of See also:Jena recognized by making him, in 1858, honorary See also:doctor of See also:philosophy. In the years 1842-1848, Heinrich Brockhaus was member of the Saxon second chamber, as representative for Leipzig, was made honorary See also:citizen of that See also:city in 1872, and died there on the 15th of See also:November 1874. See H. E. Brockhaus, Friedrich A. Brockhaus, sein Leben and Wirken nach Briefen and andern Aufzeichnungen (3 vols., Leipzig. 1872—1881) ; also by the same author, See also:Die Firma F. A.

Brockhaus von der Begri ndung bis zum hundertjahrigen Jubildum (1805—1905, Leipzig, 1905). Another of Friedrich's sons, See also:

HERMANN BROCKHAUS (i8o6-1877), German Orientalist, was born at Amsterdam on the 28th of See also:January 18o6. While his two See also:brothers carried on the business he devoted himself to an See also:academic career. He was appointed extraordinary See also:professor in Jena in 1838, and in 1841 received a See also:call in a similar capacity to Leipzig, where in 1848 he was made See also:ordinary professor of See also:ancient Semitic. He died at Leipzig on the 5th of January 1877. Brockhaus was an See also:Oriental See also:scholar in the old sense of the word, devoting his See also:attention, not to one See also:language only, but to acquiring a familiarity with the See also:principal languages and literature of the See also:East. He studied See also:Hebrew, Arabic and See also:Persian, and was able to lecture on See also:Sanskrit, after-wards his specialty, See also:Pali, Zend and even on See also:Chinese. His most important work was the editio princeps of the See also:Katha-sarit-sagara, " The Ocean of the Streams of See also:Story," the large collection of Sanskrit stories made by See also:Soma See also:Deva in the 12th See also:century. By this publication he gave the first impetus to a really scientific study of the origin and spreading of popular tales, and enabled Prof. See also:Benfey and others to trace the great bulk of Eastern and Western stories to an See also:Indian, and more especially to a Buddhistic source. Among Prof.

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