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PERTHES, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1772—1843)

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PERTHES, See also:FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1772—1843) , See also:German publisher, See also:nephew of Johan Georg Perthes (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Rudolstadt on the 21st of See also:April 1772. At the See also:age of fifteen he became an apprentice in the service of See also:Adam Friedrich Bohme, a bookseller in See also:Leipzig, with whom he remained for about six years. In See also:Hamburg, where he settled in 1793 as an assistant to the bookseller B. G. See also:Hoffmann, he started in 1796 a See also:bookselling business of his own, and in 1798 he entered into See also:partnership with his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Johann Heinrich Besser. (1775—1826). By his See also:marriage in 1797 with a daughter of the poet, See also:Matthias See also:Claudius, he was brought into intimate relation with a See also:group of See also:Protestant writers, who exercised a powerful See also:influence on the growth of his religious opinions. This, however, did not prevent him from being on friendly terms with a number of eminent See also:Roman See also:Catholic authors. Perthes was an ardent patriot; and during the See also:period of See also:Napoleon's supremacy he distinguished himself by his steady resistance to See also:French pretensions. His zeal for the See also:national cause led him, in 1810—1811, to issue Das deutsche Museum, to which many of the foremost publicists in See also:Germany contributed. For some See also:time the French made it impossible for him to live in Hamburg; and when, in 1814, he returned to that See also:city he found that his business had greatly diminished. In 1821, his wife having died, he See also:left Hamburg, transferring his business there to his partner, and went to See also:Gotha, where he established what ultimately became one of the first See also:publishing houses in Germany.

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initiation that the Borsenverein der deutschen Buchhdndler (See also:Union of German Booksellers) in Leipzig was founded in 1825. When the See also:foundation-See also:stone of the See also:fine See also:building of the Union was laid in 1834, Perthes was made an honorary See also:freeman of the city of Leipzig, and in 184o the university of See also:Kiel conferred upon him the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy. Perthes died at Gotha on the 18th of May 1843. His See also:Life was written by his son, Klemens Theodor Perthes (1809—1867), See also:professor of law in the university of See also:Bonn, and author of Das deutsche Staatsleben vor der Revolution (Hamburg and Gotha, 1845), and Das Herbergswesen der Handwerksgesellen (Gotha, 1856, and again 1883), whose son See also:Hermann Friedrich Perthes (1840—1883) was the founder of the Fridericianum at See also:Davos Platz. The publishing business at Gotha was carried on by Perthes's younger son, Andreas, (1813—1890) and his See also:grandson, Emil (1841— ), until 1889, when it was handed over to a See also:company. See also O. See also:Adler, Friedrich and Karoline Perthes (Leipzig, 190o).

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