Georg Eduard Hallberger, after 1869: von Hallberger (29 March 1822, Stuttgart - 29 August 1880,

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) was a German publisher and businessman.

Biography

He was the son of , a publisher and bookseller. After serving an apprenticeship in his father's company, he spent his

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at publishers in

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and

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. Upon returning to Stuttgart, during the

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, he started his own publishing firm, with an emphasis on youth and folk literature. In 1850, he began issuing a monthly magazine for young people, ', which was published until 1889. In 1853, he created the family magazine, ', which was very successful and eventually had a circulation of 150,000 copies. Encouraged by this, he joined with the writers,

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and Edmund Zoller (1822-1902), to create the illustrated news magazine ''

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''. This was equally successful and was published until 1923. Later magazines failed to match the popularity of these first two. To produce his illustrations, he created "E. Hallberger X. A."; among the largest

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companies in Germany. One of his most popular works, ''Aegypten in Bild und Wort'' (Egypt in Image and Word), with commentary by the

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, was issued in 1879 and translated into several languages, including English, French and Czech. After the Franco-Prussian War, he founded a major subsidiary in

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. In 1873, the companies merged and he built new corporate headquarters, designed by , which were destroyed by a bombing raid in 1944. Over the years, he expanded his business interests to include coal companies, bricklayers, quarries, cement and paper mills. In Switzerland, he owned a

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. He also became a major property owner, with buildings throughout Stuttgart and a "castle" in Tutzing, on the

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. In 1869, he was named a "" and elevated to the nobility in

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. He died at his castle in 1880. Per his wishes, his holdings were transferred to a stock company called the (now a division of

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). A "Temple of Honor", erected at Ilkahöhe by his daughter, Gabriele, was demolished in the 1970s

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