Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann ( born September 14, 1765 in Züllichau, † June 12, 1837 in Jena ) was a German publisher and bookseller in Jena.

Life and work

Training and construction of the publisher

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann came as the son of the bookseller Nathaniel Sigsimund Frommann in Züllichau / Neumark (now Sulechów, a small town in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship ) to the world. He received his education in Berlin in August Mylius. In 1786 he became head of the family publishing house, which initially operated under the name heirs under the name Nathanael From Sigismund 's and was later renamed " Züllichau Friedrich Frommann ". Comprised the publishing program previously only the faculties of theology and philosophy, advanced Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann successfully the repertoire to include education and language dictionaries. Thus, the " Critical Greek - German Concise Dictionary " by Johann Gottlob Schneider- Saxo appeared in 1797 in his publishing house.

Spiritual center of classical music in Jena

In 1798 Frommann moved the seat of publishing Züllichau to Jena to be closer to the intellectual center of the time, Weimar and the university town of Jena.

Between 1794 and 1805 housed Jena many creative minds such as Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, the brothers August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Johann Heinrich Voss, Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer, Zacharias Werner, Jean Paul, Ernst Moritz Arndt, August Friedrich Karl Ziegesar and others and among them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From man and Goethe

The publisher is to win all the renowned authors of that time and his house became a social center in Jena succeeded. In 1799, he received the privilege of opening a print shop. Was married Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann with Johanna Wesselhöfft (1765-1830), with whom he also raised them next to his son an early orphaned foster daughter. Relations with Goethe developed very friendly especially in the years 1806 and 1807. The strong affection of the now sixty -year-old poet to From 's foster daughter Wilhelmine Herzlieb called Minna Minna or were, in winter 1807 the convivial hours, a special coloring. She encouraged Goethe to sonnets competition with Zacharias Werner at, was also inspiration for the figure of Ottilie in the " Elective Affinities " and perhaps inspiration to the "Pandora".

Handover of the publisher

1825 took Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann his son, Frederick John ( 1797-1886 ) in the publishing business, and retired after 1830 from the publisher stores back. In 1836 he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Leipzig. A year later, Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann died at the age of 71 years.

The publisher today

The former Frommannsche publisher still exists today under the name frommann - holzboog publisher. He publishes mainly humanities works with a focus on philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis and related sciences. Office of the publisher is Stuttgart since 1886.