Eugen Diederichs

Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930)^[1] was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Eugen Diederichs

Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896.^[2] He moved on to Leipzig,^[3] where he published the early works of Hermann Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904.^[4] He started publishing the magazine Die Tat in 1912.^[5] His publishing firm, the Eugen Diederichs Verlag, played a central role in Germany's neo-conservative or revolutionary conservative movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.^[6]

Diedrichs married Helene Voigt in 1898; the couple separated in 1911.^[3] He married the writer Lulu von Strauss und Torney in 1916.^[7] Diederichs died in Jena in 1930.

Since 1988, Diederichs has become an imprint of the Hugendubel publishing house.^[4]

References

1. "Diederichs, Eugen, 1867–1930". US Library of Congress.
2. Smith, Helmut Walser (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Oxford University Press. p. 485. ISBN 978-0199237395.
3. Bédé, Jean Albert; Edgerton, William Benbow (1980). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 857. ISBN 0231037171.
4. "About Diederichs Publishers". Random House. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015.
5. Staudenmaier, Peter (2014). Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era. BRILL. p. 82. ISBN 978-9004270152.
6. Stark, Gary D. (1981). Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1452-0.
7. Furness, Raymond; Humble, Malcolm, eds. (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature. Routledge. p. 284. ISBN 1134747640.

External links

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