Eugen Diederichs

Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930)^[1] was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896.^[2] He moved on to Leipzig,^[3] where he published the early works of Hermann Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904.^[4] He started publishing the magazine Die Tat in 1912.^[5]

Diedrichs married Helene Voigt in 1898; the couple separated in 1911.^[3] He married the writer Lulu von Strauß und Torney in 1916.^[6] Diederichs died in Jena in 1930.

Since 1988, Diederichs has become an imprint of the Hugendubel publishing house.^[4]

References

1. "Diederichs, Eugen, 1867–1930". US Library of Congress.
2. Smith, Helmut Walser (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Oxford University Press. p. 485. ISBN 0199237395.
3. Bédé, Jean Albert; Edgerton, William Benbow (1980). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. p. 857. ISBN 0231037171.
4. "About Diederichs Publishers". Random House.
5. Staudenmaier, Peter (2014). Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era. p. 82. ISBN 9004270159.
6. Furness, Raymond; Humble, Malcolm, eds. (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature. p. 284. ISBN 1134747640.