12 Facts About Heinrich Brockhaus

Heinrich Brockhaus was a German book dealer and publisher who became a liberal politician.

Heinrich Brockhaus was born into a protestant family in Amsterdam, a principal commercial centre in the Batavian Republic where his father had set up his business in 1802 after falling out with a business partner in the family's former home city, Dortmund.

Heinrich Brockhaus's mother, born Sophie Wilhelmine Arnoldine Beurhaus, was the daughter of a Dortmund senator, Johann Friedrich Beurhaus.

Heinrich and his younger brother, Hermann Brockhaus were pupils at the prestigious boys' school run by Carl Lang at Schloss Wackerbarth.

Heinrich Brockhaus was not yet twenty when his father died suddenly, and he found himself responsible for running his father's business, which by now had become established in Leipzig.

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, in his will, had given effect to a determination that the business should be run for the benefit of all his heirs, and Heinrich ran it, initially, with his elder brother, Friedrich Brockhaus.

Later on the brothers agreed that Heinrich should run the business on his own: Friedrich retired from it and moved away to Dresden.

Heinrich Brockhaus took a close interest in authors' rights, a subject in which his involvement continued when he entered into the world of politics.

For many years Heinrich Brockhaus sat as a member of the Leipzig city parliament.

Heinrich Brockhaus was a member of the regional parliament for Saxony in the 1840s.

Heinrich Brockhaus married Pauline Campe in Leipzig in 1827.

In 1828 his elder brother, Friedrich Heinrich Brockhaus married Luise Wagner.