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| 1796 births | |
| 1856 deaths | |
| people from thuringia | |
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Meyer was educated as merchant in Frankfurt Am Main . He went to London in 1816, but returned to Germany in 1820 after business adventures and stock speculations fell through. Here he invested in enterprises like textile-trade (1820-24), mining industry and railways in the thirties and forties of the 19th century, but with limited results. Meyer operated very successfully as a publisher, employing a system of serial subscription to publications, which was new at that time. To this end he founded the company " Bibliographisches Institut " in Gotha in 1826, which issued several editions of the Bible , works of classical literature ("Miniatur-Bibliothek der deutschen Classiker", "Groschen-Bibliothek"), atlases, the world in pictures on steel engravings ("Meyers Universum", 1833-61, 17 volumes in 12 languages with 80,000 subscribers all over Europe), and an encyclopaedia, ("das Grosse Conversations-Lexikon für die gebildeten Stände"; see Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 1839-55, 52 volumes). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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