Munich:Bookshops

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1698

Johann Hibler
from 1677-98 employee of von Geldern’s

allowance for small books
1744
Johann Hibler, son
1748
Johann Gastl, buyer
1753

Johann Gastl

son
1766

Johann Nepomuk Fritz

son in law
1784

Josef Lentner

marries Fritz’s widow
1810

Ignaz Lentner

son
1841

Wilhelm Keck

buyer
1856
1609

Johann Hertzroy

from Ingolstadt
1625

Cornelius Leysser

marries Witwe Hertzroy
1645

Johann Wagner
buys bookshop at Rindermarkt 3

manages after 1669 with son in law second a shop
1685
von Geldern
1691
Widow von Geldern
1701-33

Johann Jacob Remy

son in law, the shop is left in debts in 1733
1752

Franz Xaver Crätz

buyer
1766

Josef Alois Crätz
son

shop in Kaufingerstr. 5
1786
Josef Lindauer
1816
Lindauer, son
1823

C. F. Sauer
former manager

marries Sauer’s widow
1852
1645

Lucas Straub
marries Leysser’s widow

licensed as printer
1692

Lucas Straub

son
1733

Johann Jacob Vötter

marries Straub’s widow
1765

Anna M. Vötter

Witwe
1785-1807

Anton Franz

former empoyee
1500

Johann Schobser

from Augsburg
1530

Andreas Schobser

son
1564
Adam Berg
1610

Anna Berg

widow
1629
A. Berg, son
1634

Michael Segen

marries Berg’s widow
1655

Johann Wilhelm Schell

son in law
1668

Sebastian Rauch

marries widow
1696
Rauch, widow
1703

Matthias Riedl

Erbe
1723

Magdalena Riedl

widow
1748

shop managed by

Johann Jacob Vötter
1756?

Johann Christoph Mayer

after his death: shop managed by Mayer’s widow
1785

Josef Zängl

son in law
1826

Josef Rösl

buyer
1850

Heinrich Rösl

son
1868
1597-1654

Nicolaus Heinrich
from Frankfurt
marries Berg’s daughter

second marriage with: Margaretha Wurm widow of a paper manufacturer
1656

Johannes Jäcklin
from Hüflingen, Schwaben
licensed as printer and publisher, later also as bookseller

shop at Rindermarket
1710
Susanna Jäcklin, daughter
1717

Heinrich Theodor von Cöln

marries Jäcklin’s daughter
1750

Franz Josef Thuielle

licensed as printer and publisher
1789

Franz Josef Hübschmann

buyer
1822

Kajetan Hübschmann &

B. Spockmair
1839

Martin Strazzer

buyer
1854
1751
Lutzenkirchner
1756

Johann Theodor Osten

marries Lutzenkirchner’s widow
1778

Johann Baptist Strobl
from Aichach

buyer
1807

Ernst August Fleischmann

buyer
1859

A Genealogy of Licenses

The first Munich bookshop was founded by Johann Shobser from Augsburg in 1500. The new trade was immediately organised after the model of the trades already established: Whoever wanted to print and sell books needed a license, a “Gerechtsame” so the official term. The different licenses are still traceable in Munich’s city archive producing a kind of genealogy of Munich’s book trade.

A shop owner who had a license would pass it down with his shop on to his son, his widow or if necessary his daughter. Outsiders could not open shops once they arrived in Munich. They either married into a license, or they bought an orphaned shop or had the protection of the court which could establish a privileged publisher and bookseller.

The arrangements were established to prevent an uncontrolled increase of traders and unwanted competition inside the city walls. The number of licenses increased even though mostly as license holders would split their businesses among their heirs – which would usually create specialised shops for either printing or bookselling.

A special quarrel evolved in the late 1690s when the von Geldern’s widow demanded a new license to be granted her employee Johann Hibler. The competitors wrote petitions with the aim to prevent the competition. Hibler was granted a special permission to sell “small books” only. His former employer, the quarrelsome widow became the first to write a petition against Hibler as he, of course, soon sold more than the small books he was allowed to sell.

In 1700 Munich had five book shops, one of them, Lucas Straub’s specialised in the printing business. A number of other shops sold prints. Their business had a field of licenses of its own.


Literature

  • Daten: Pius Dirr, Buchwesen und Schrifttum im alten München. 1450-1800 (München, 1929).
  • Olaf Simons: Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001), p.26 f. ISBN 90-420-1226-9

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