Wilhelm Engelmann

Wilhelm Engelmann ( born August 1, 1808 in Lemgo, † December 23, 1878 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher and bookseller.

Life

Engelmann was the son of a bookseller to Lemgo, who moved to Leipzig later. There Wilhelm Engelmann attended the Thomas School and was planning an academic career. However, he was forced to seek early independence by the early death of his father. He walked the bookseller Theodore Enslin in the teaching and earned also many valuable business contacts. After finishing his apprenticeship Engelmann worked with Johann Georg Heyse in Bremen, where he was also involved in the printing industry. He subsequently worked at Carl Gerold in Vienna and with Varrentrapp in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1833 he returned to Leipzig and took over his father's business. His friends in the scientific community gave him a quick recovery, he moved by their works: Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Georg Weber, Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg and Albert Kölliker impressed by his focus medicine, history and philology. An important number was the Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum, a Bibliography of classical philology from 1700 until his death in 1878, which connects to the Bibliotheca graeca, Bibliotheca Bibliotheca latina latina and mediae et infimae Aetatis by Johann Albert Fabricius.

Engelmann received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena. After his death the business passed into the hands of his widow and his son Rudolf Engelmann.