Charles-Joseph Panckoucke

Charles Joseph Panckoucke (* November 26, 1736 in Lille, † December 19, 1798 ) was a French writer and publisher. He was known primarily as a publisher of the Encyclopédie méthodique and as the founder of the newspaper Le Moniteur universel. He also published from the year 1788, the tableau encyclopédique méthodique et des trois règnes de la nature by Jean -Baptiste Lamarck, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot and Jean Guillaume Bruguiere.

Life

Charles Joseph Panckoucke belongs to a French book printer and bookseller family. His father André Joseph Panckoucke (1700-1753) was also publishers, booksellers and writers. His mother was Antoinette Gandouin (* 1710), the parents were married in 1730 and had two children, Amélie Panckoucke ( 1750-1830 ) and her older brother Charles -Joseph Panckoucke.

After an apprenticeship at the founding editor of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers André- François Le Breton Panckoucke settled down in Paris in 1762. In 1766, he married Thérèse couret de Villeneuve (ca. 1750-1823 ), they had three children: Antoinette Pauline Panckoucke ( 1769-1840 ), Thérèse Charlotte Panckoucke ( 1775-1838 ) and Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke ( 1780-1844 ).

From 1768 was Panckoucke the official bookseller of the Royal Printing and the Academy of Sciences, libraire - éditeur officiel de l' Imprimerie royale et de l' Académie royale des sciences. He was now an important person of the French book trade and publishing.

Panckoucke wrote, among other things, a Grammaire raisonnée (Paris 1795) and translated Tasso and Ariosto. He moved the Mercure de France, and also works of Buffon, Laharpes travel, the great French Vocabulaire, the repertoire universel de jurisprudence and the Encyclopédie méthodique, a thematically ordered succession work of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, short Encyclopédie, by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d' Alembert -Baptiste. On December 16, 1768, he acquired with the bookseller Jean Dessaint and the Papiermanufakteur Chauchat the rights for further and future editions of the Encyclopédie and the volumes of plates.

This comprehensive work was published until 1832. The edition was continued after the death of Panckoucke by his daughter Thérèse -Charlotte Agasse, she was the widow of his partner Henri Agasse ( 1752-1813 ).

In November 1789 he founded the newspaper Le Moniteur universel, which is partially owned by the Panckouckeschen family today.

Panckouckes sister Amélie Suard (1750-1830) was an author and hostess of a literary salon, she was married to Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard. His son Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844) was also a writer and publisher.