Benjamin Herder

Ignaz Benjamin Herder ( born July 31, 1818 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † November 10, 1888 ) was a German publisher and the son of Bartholomew Herder, the founder of the Herder publishing house.

After high school, he learned the book trade in Gauthier de Laguionie in Paris and then studied at the University of Freiburg. After the death of his father in 1839 he took with his brother Karl Raphael Herder publishing director. The brother was responsible for the commercial part, he is responsible for the content area. In 1856, his brother moved back to the bathroom Krankenheil to take over at Tölz, which fell to him the sole lead. Initially, he moved texts from all scientific fields, then changed direction of the publishing program on theology, pedagogy, political history, art and literature, all of them with a Catholic conservative stance and preserved for them using the Kulturkampf. As a result of reorientation, he gave up the field mapping and the art publisher, also Rotteck world history was sold after the 14th edition.

Among the well-known works from his time include the first " Church Lexicon " by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer and Benedict Welte (1841-1846) that " since the end of the Middle Ages to 1799 History of the Popes " by Ludwig von Pastor and in 1853 the Conversation Lexicon in 5 volumes which later became the Great Herder. For the church lexicon he made it for the first time, bring together the leading Catholic scholars; this included among others Franz Anton Staudenmaier, Johann Baptist von Hirscher, Karl Joseph Hefele of Josef Hergenröther, Franz Hettinger, Mathias Joseph Scheeben, John Jansen and Friedrich Heinrich Suso Denifle.

Also magazines, he relocated, they exist in some areas still eg voices of the time since 1865 and the "Roman quarterly magazine for Christian archeology and history of the Church ."

He expanded the company through a number of subsidiaries in Strasbourg (1867-1918), Munich ( 1873) and St. Louis (USA 1873). In 1886 he opened his own store with the name " example in Vienna Herder Verlag - book and art shop. "

After his death in 1888 his son Hermann Herder took over (senior ) the publishing business.