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Born November 3, 1801 • Essen • Germany
Died October 4, 1859 (aged 57) • Koblenz • Prussia
Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet
British publisher
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Mathias Döpfner
German businessman
Thomas Middelhoff
German businessman
Baron von Reuter
Paul Julius, baron von Reuter
German journalist
Stinnes, Hugo
Hugo Stinnes
German industrialist
Anna Sartorius Uhl Ottendorfer
German-American publisher and philanthropist
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Matthäus Merian
Swiss artist [1593-1650]
Christopher Sower
American printer
Christian August Vulpius
German author
Johann Froben
Swiss printer
Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
August Leopold Crelle
German mathematician and engineer
Johann Fust
German printer
Axel Springer
German publisher
Johann Elert Bode
German astronomer
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
German publisher