Leo Woer – Wikipedia

Leo Woerl (Born May 24, 1843 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † July 1, 1918 in Leipzig) was a German Catholic publisher, especially known for his travel books.

Leo Woerl was the son of the cartographer Joseph Edmund Woerl (1803–1865) and the Maria Herder (* 1805), a daughter of Bartholomä Herder (1774–1839), and thus a nephew of the owner of Herder’s publisher in Freiburg, Benjamin Herder (1818-1888). He learned the bookstore in Freiburg near Herder from 1858 to 1862 and, after a few years of hiking as a bookseller in Würzburg, founded his own publishing house in Würzburg (“Leo Woerl’sche Buch- und Church-Kunstverlagshandlung”, also “Leo Woerl’sche Buch, Kunst- und Verlagshandlung “;” Publisher by Leo Woerl “), whose span ranged from theological to the fiction. From 1866 to 1869 he lived in Zurich; Since the 1870s he has also maintained an agency in Vienna (Spiegelgasse 12).

The Catholic published in his Würzburger Verlag from 1868 to 1870 Franconian Volksblatt . ^[first] From 1874 he also operated a “Centralbureau for Catholic interests” for employment for Catholic employees. ^[2] From 1882 to 1891 he was also active in Würzburg as a city council.

In 1878, the publisher began with the publication of travel guides (“Woerl Reissehandbooks”), of which over 600 appeared until the turn of the century alone. The “Woerl’s travel book publisher” was moved to Leipzig in 1897, then the central German book trade city. In his publisher, a two-volume shortened version of the multi-volume of the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany also appeared Die whale . ^[3] Woerl wrote a biography of Ludwig Salvator published in 1899. The other well-known Woerl authors included Joseph Stöckle, among others.

After Woerl left the city of Würzburg after bankruptcy in 1898 ^[4] the publisher was taken over by Albrecht Seemann (1863–1952) in 1920.

• The Catholic press. A New Year’s greeting for the Catholics of Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Woerl, Würzburg 1875.
• The Catholic press in Europe for New Year 1877 . Woerl, Würzburg 1876.
  • 2nd Edition The Catholic press in Europe in 1877 . Woerl, Würzburg 1877 ( Digitized ).
• World round show about the Catholic press for New Year 1878 . Woerl, Würzburg 1878.
• Statistics of the Catholic newspapers and magazines all over the world to New Year 1879 . Woerl, Würzburg 1879.
• The journalism of the present. A round show over the entire press in the world . Issue 1–6 Woerl, Würzburg 1879–1881.
  • Heft 1: The press relationships in the Grand Duchy Hesse . 1879.
  • Heft 2: The press relationships in the Kingdom of Württemberg . 1879.
  • Heft 3: The press relationships in the Swiss Confederation . 1879.
  • Heft 4: The press relationships in the Kingdom of Bavaria . 1880.
  • Heft 5: The press relationships in the imperial state of Austria-Hungary . 1881 ( Digitized ).
  • Heft 6: The press relationships in the Kingdom of Prussia . 1881.
• Statistics of the Catholic newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Luxembourg and Switzerland for New Year 1882 . Woerl, Würzburg 1882.
• Archduke Ludwig Salvator from the Austrian imperial house as researchers of the Mediterranean . Woerl, Leipzig 1899 ( Digitized ).

• Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller, German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry . Volume 6. Verlag by Rudolf Schmidt, Eberswalde 1908, pp. 1055-1056 ( Digitized ).
• Börsenblatt for the German bookstore July 3, 1918, no. 152.
• Michael Schmolke: The bad press. Catholics and journalism between “Catholic” and “public” 1821–1968 . Regensberg, Münster 1971, S. 183–184.
• Julius Dorneich; Hansjakob’s first publisher Leo Woerl . In: Hansjakob yearbook Band 6, 1978, S. 14–24.
• Olaf Blaschke: Catholicism and anti -Semitism in the German Empire (= Critical studies on historical science Volume 122). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-35785-0, p. 60. 137. 143. 207.

1. ↑ Franconian Volksblatt in the Historical Lexicon Bavaria .
2. ↑ Christian-social leaves No. 31, December 20, 1874, pp. 299–300 ( Digitized ).
3. ↑ The Balearic Islands. Described in word and picture . 2 volumes. Woerl, Würzburg / Leipzig 1897; shortened version of Die whale . 7 volumes, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869–1891.
4. ↑ Sybille Grübel: Temporary table on the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (ed.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III/2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007; III/1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Band 2, 2007, IBN 978-3-8062-1478-9-9-15-125-124; here: p. 1234.