Georg Hirth

Georg Hirth ( born July 13, 1841 in Gräfentonna, the district of Gotha, Thuringia, † March 28, 1916 in Tegernsee ) was a German statistician, economic writer, journalist and publisher.

Life

Georg Hirth, brother of the painter Rudolph Hirth, was initially 1857-1862 Apprentice " Perthesschen geographical institution" to Gotha. Subsequently, he studied economics at the University of Leipzig, where he simultaneously the " German gymnastics magazine" edited from 1863 to 1866. From 1867 he was a member of Ernst Engel ( 1821-1896 ), founded only in 1862, " Statistical seminar" and act as secretary to the " Victoria National Disability Foundation " to Berlin. He was also active as a contributor to the magazine " The Gazebo ". In 1867 he began in Berlin with the publication of " Parliament almanac " ( 15th edition 1884) and 1868 of the " Annals of the North German Confederation ", called since 1871 " Annals of the German Reich ", which he edited from 1882 together with Dr. Max Seydel, the board of the " Royal Bavarian statistical Bureau " (today Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing ). From 1869 to 1870 he was a member of the " Commission for further training of statistics" of the German Customs Union.

He married in 1870, Elise Knorr, daughter of the Munich publisher Julius Knorr. From 1870 to 1871 he was a political and commercial editor of the " Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung". Since the mid- 1870s, he turned to his publicizing the promotion of arts and crafts made ​​by numerous publications and the crafts and the knowledge of the cultural history of valuable services.

In 1875 he founded with his brother Thomas Knorr ( 1851-1911 ) and with funding assistance of 40,000 marks was the father or father Julius Knorr the print " Knorr & Hirth ". He was co-owner of the "Munich Latest News ", of which he took over in 1881 and made ​​her a leading liberal newspaper, and book publisher in Munich.

In 1894, the " Knorr & Hirth, book and art print oHG" fused to the newspaper publisher and converted into a limited liability company.

In 1896 he founded, together with Fritz von Ostini the magazine " Youth" with the subtitle "Munich illustrated weekly journal for art and life " as a mouthpiece for the former Munich's art and literary scene. The magazine lasted until 1940 and was named after the Art Nouveau style.

Works

• Statistical Yearbook of gymnastic clubs (Leipzig 1863 and 1865)
• The entire turn beings (Leipzig 1865)
• Liberal Views of Economics ( 3rd edition, Leipzig 1876)
• Numerous essays and statistical studies in his annals
• Publisher: Diary of the German - French War (Leipzig 1870-1874 )
• The geomorphology of the Renaissance (1877 ff, since 1879 under the title The geomorphology )
• The German Room of the Gothic and Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Zopfstils: suggestions on domestic art care. Hirth, Munich 1886 ( digitized )
• Cultural and historical picture book from three centuries (1883 ff )
• Editor of a series of facsimile reproductions of old German woodcut works and drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, Jost Amman, Virgil Solis, among others in the library of old lovers Illustrators (1880 ff )