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PERTHES, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (17721843)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 261 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PERTHES, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (17721843) , German publisher, nephew of Johan Georg Perthes (q.v.), was born at Rudolstadt on the 21st of April 1772. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice in the service of
Adam
 
Friedrich
  Bohme, a bookseller in
Leipzig
 , with whom he remained for about six years. In Hamburg, where he settled in 1793 as an assistant to the bookseller B. G.
Hoffmann
 , he started in 1796 a bookselling business of his own, and in 1798 he entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Johann Heinrich Besser. (17751826). By his
marriage
  in 1797 with a daughter of the poet, Matthias
Claudius
 , he was brought into intimate relation with a group of
Protestant
  writers, who exercised a powerful influence on the growth of his religious opinions. This, however, did not prevent him from being on friendly terms with a number of eminent Roman Catholic authors. Perthes was an ardent patriot; and during the period of
Napoleon
 's supremacy he distinguished himself by his steady resistance to French pretensions. His zeal for the national cause led him, in 18101811, to issue Das deutsche Museum, to which many of the foremost publicists in Germany contributed. For some time the French made it impossible for him to live in Hamburg; and when, in 1814, he returned to that city he found that his business had greatly diminished. In 1821, his wife having died, he left Hamburg, transferring his business there to his partner, and went to Gotha, where he established what ultimately became one of the first publishing houses in Germany. It was owing to his initiation that the Borsenverein der deutschen Buchhdndler (Union of German Booksellers) in
Leipzig
  was founded in 1825. When the foundation-stone of the fine building of the Union was laid in 1834, Perthes was made an honorary freeman of the city of Leipzig, and in 184o the university of Kiel conferred upon him the degree of
doctor
  of philosophy. Perthes died at Gotha on the 18th of May 1843. His Life was written by his son, Klemens Theodor Perthes (18091867), professor of law in the university of
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 Hermann
Friedrich
  Perthes (18401883) was the founder of the Fridericianum at Davos Platz. The publishing business at Gotha was carried on by Perthes's younger son, Andreas, (18131890) and his grandson, Emil (1841 ), until 1889, when it was handed over to a company.
See also O. Adler, Friedrich and Karoline Perthes (Leipzig, 190o).


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