Otto Wigand

The Leipzig house of Otto Friedrich Wigand (1795–1870), who had earlier founded a publishing business in Kaschau (Košice) before settling in Leipzig in 1833; it traded as Verlag Otto Wigand from 1839. After the German Confederation banned the Young Germany writers in 1835, Wigand became the champion of the Young Hegelians, publishing Arnold Ruge's Hallische Jahrbücher, Ludwig Feuerbach — whose complete works he issued from 1846 — Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess and Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own, as well as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). In 1867 his press printed the first edition of Marx's Capital for the Hamburg publisher Otto Meissner. He retired in 1864, handing the business to his son Hugo Karl Wigand, and the firm continued until 1906.

Years

1833–1906

Location

Leipzig, Germany

Name history

1. 1833–1839 Wigand'sche Verlags-Expedition, Leipzig
2. 1839–? Verlag Otto Wigand

Also known as

Verlag Otto Wigand · Wigand'sche Verlags-Expedition

Languages

German

Authority records

Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI

Sources

German Wikipedia — Otto Wigand; Deutsche Biographie — Wigand, Otto

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