Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (May 4, 1772 - August 20, 1823) was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (673x947, 194 KB) de: Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Gemälde eines unbekannten Meisters nach einer Zeichnung von Carl Vogel von Vogelstein. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (673x947, 194 KB) de: Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Gemälde eines unbekannten Meisters nach einer Zeichnung von Carl Vogel von Vogelstein. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica. ...

He was educated at the gymnasium of his native place, and from 1788 to 1793 served an apprenticeship in a mercantile house at Düsseldorf. He then devoted two years at Leipzig to the study of modern languages and literature, after which he set up at Dortmund an emporium for English goods. In 1801 he transferred this business to Arnheim, and in the following year to Amsterdam. Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... The University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State and former Kingdom of Saxony, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1805, having given up his first line of trade, he began business as a publisher. Two journals projected by him were not allowed by the government to survive for any length of time, and in 1810 the complications in the affairs of Holland induced him to return homewards. In 1811 he settled at Altenburg. About three years previously he had purchased the copyright of the bankrupt Konversations-Lexikon, started in 1796, and in 1810-1811 he completed the first edition of this celebrated work. It is still published today, known as the Brockhaus. 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... Brockhaus is a German encyclopedia. ...

A second edition under his own editorship 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 printing-house. Among the more extensive of his many literary undertakings were the critical periodicals--Hermes, the Literarisches Konversationsblatt (afterwards the Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung), and the Zeilgenossen, and some large historical and bibliographical works, such as Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenslaufen, and Ebert's Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon. 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer (May 14, 1781 - June 14, 1873), was a German historian. ... Friedrich Adolf Ebert (July 9, 1791–November 13, 1834), German bibliographer, was born at Taucha, near Leipzig, the son of a Lutheran pastor. ...

FA Brockhaus died at Leipzig on the 20th of August 1823. The business was carried on by his sons, Friedrich Brockhaus (1800-1865) who retired in 1850, and Heinrich Brockhaus (1804-1874), under whom it was considerably extended. The latter especially rendered great services to literature and science, which the university of Jena recognized by making him, in 1858, honorary doctor of philosophy. In the years 1842-1848, Heinrich Brockhaus was member of the Saxon second chamber, as representative for Leipzig, was made honorary citizen of that city in 1872, and died there on the 15th of November 1874. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was named for the German writer Friedrich Schiller. ...

See HE Brockhaus, Friedrich A. Brockhaus, sein Leben und Wirken nach Briefen und andern Aufzeichnungen (3 vols., Leipzig. 1872-1881); also by the, same author, Die Firma F. A. Brockhaus von der Begründung bis zum hundertjährigen Jubiläum (1805-1905, Leipzig, 1905).

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century; indeed, it was advertised as such. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...