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History as a commodity: The project

"A new scientific biography of Perthes stands out as the opening of his legacy preserved in the State Archives of Hamburg ..." - scientist Ernst Fischer, the book states in its Killy encyclopedia article. To solve this Gordian knot, I started in autumn 1999 with the preparatory work in February 2008, the result was published under the title "history as a commodity" .

With this project I would like to - participate in the research discussion on interactions between science and the market "- although not working at a university. If desired, I will give insight into the sources evaluated by me.

• The book


• reviews


• Project details


• research publishing history


• About the author (with contact)

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Research & Resources

There is virtually no recent research admitted Friedrich Perthes, it proved to be essential to evaluate the extensive hand-written estate. In years of research succeeded, can recover much of the far-flung legacy and evaluated. The real basis is more than 5000 excerpted letters to thousands of pages of a diary, concepts, notes. In addition, for the period 1796-1843 new publishing statistics on the basis of the publishing bibliography created, allows for precise conclusions on the economic development of the publishing business and a balance of independent comparison with other companies. Ultimately, the source material proved so rich that the war-related loss of the actual publishing archive was in most cases.

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• news and discoveries

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Friedrich Perthes: missing Biographical

The name above all is two-Perthes tag penetrated into the public consciousness: first, via the maps and atlases of the company Justus Perthes, the one about the disease called Perthes disease. Both "Eponyms" are not to be confused with Friedrich Perthes, although they are related to him.

• the publisher: Biographical Friedrich Perthes


• The son and first biographer: Clemens Theodor Perthes


• details of publishing history

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Perthes letters to Sulpiz Boisserée

On 3 March 2009 plunged the building of the Historical Archive in Cologne, a city - from initially unknown reasons. In this (most German municipal) archive stored some papers of great importance for the history of literature, including by Heinrich Böll, Hans Mayer, Irmgard Keun, and part of the publisher's archive of Kiepenheuer & Witsch. be

For Goethe time must of course named the estate of art collector and architectural historian Sulpiz Boisserée (1783-1854), which is inextricably linked to the completion of Cologne cathedral building. Perthes He learned during his apprenticeship in Hamburg (since 1799) know in the bookstore and did stay in touch later. Of these, the overwhelming evidence in the witness (thank goodness) published diaries (edited by HJ Weitz, Darmstadt, 1978-85).

In Cologne estate, stock 1018/240, 21 letters were kept in Perthes Boisserée, mostly private content as well as questions about specific books:


11/13/1810 12/06/1816 24/07/1822

16/10/1822
10.05. 1826

19/10/1830 12/07/1830 06/26/1831


27/10/1831 10/10/1832 11/23/1832


01/06/1833 02/08/1833 02/27/1833

12/08/1833 (draft Reply)
September 1833
October 1834

02/08/1835 03/05/1836 02/19/1840

30/03/1842 02/01/1843


The synopses of these letters I have received a copy before fortunately, unfortunately I never managed to review the letters and to include in my address.

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Ranke output is pulped

In the summer of 2008, the news hit at least one in German history as the lightning: the historical-critical edition of the correspondence as Ranke'schen "(...) an almost bacterial enforcement with differences in wording that could impair to destruction of the authentic character of many documents has resulted. The number of necessary corrections is already checked by me for 90 out of 267 letters from more than 1,200 read errors. " . These rates are Günter John Henz, once the doctor of the young Leopold Ranke and - like Siegfried Baur - Head of the Department of Manuscripts of the Berlin State Security and also vine specialists - were not included in the edition project was. A rogue, the evil thinks.

that this disaster is just with the vine-Edition and also the Oldenbourg-Verlag, in which most of the standard works on history and the HZ will happens is almost a bad joke of history. The consequence: Volume 1 of the output is pulped, it all starts over again.

I very much hope that I will not forget the editors provided additional information from the correspondence-Perthes ...

For further reading:

WORLD Online article of 05/08/2008
WORLD Online article from 10/10/2008