- Rudolph Ackermann
Rudolph Ackermann (
April 20 ,1764 –March 30 ,1834 ) was an Anglo-Germaninventor andpublisher .Biography
He was born at Schneeberg, in
Saxony , where he attended the Latin school. His wish to study at the university was made impossible by lack of financial means, and he therefore became asaddler like his father.He was a saddler and coach-builder in different German cities, then moved to
Paris , andLondon , where in 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school in The Strand. Ackermann set up a lithographic press and begun a trade incopper lithographs. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters.In 1817 he applied his press to the illustration of his "Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions", which appeared monthly until 1828, when forty volumes had appeared.
Thomas Rowlandson and other distinguished artists were regular contributors. "Ackermann's Repository" documented the changing classicising fashions in dress and furniture of the Regency. He also introduced the fashion of the once popular "Literary Annuals", beginning in 1823 with "Forget-me-not"; and he published many illustrated volumes oftopography and travel, "The Microcosm of London" (3 vols., 1808-1811), "Westminster Abbey " (2 vols., 1812), "TheRhine " (1820), "The World in Miniature" (43 vols., 1821-1826), etc.Ackermann was an enterprising man; he
patent ed in 1801 a method for rendering paper and cloth waterproof and erected a factory in Chelsea to make it. He was one of the first to illuminate his own premises withgas . Indeed the introduction of lighting by gas owed much to him. After theBattle of Leipzig , Ackermann collected nearly a quarter of a million pounds sterling for the German casualties. He also patented theAckermann steering geometry .See also
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Thomas Rowlandson
* "Microcosm of London "
* "Poetical Magazine "
*Isaac Cruikshank
*George Moutard Woodward References
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* "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" - atWikisource
* "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum", Mary Dorothy George. Vol VI 1938, Vol VII, 1942 VOL VIII 1947, VOL IX 1949External links
* [http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ "Forget Me Not": A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th-Century Literary Annual] reproduces elements from the 1823-1830 volumes of the earliest British-published literary annual, "Forget Me Not," published by Rudolf Ackermann between 1823 and 1847. Hyperlinks allow the volumes to be examined by author, engraver, etc., and include references to other works submitted to similar 19th century literary journals.
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