Friedrich Johannes Frommann (9 August 1797, Züllichau - 6 June 1886,

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) was a German publisher, bookseller and politician.

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His father was the bookseller and publisher,

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (14 September 1765, Züllichau12 June 1837, Jena) was a German publisher and bookseller. Life and work His father, Nathanael Siegismund Frommann (1736-1786), was also a bookseller. He received his training in Ber ...

. He attended secondary school in

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and served an apprenticeship as a

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there. From 1816 to 1817, he attended lectures in history at the

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, and was one of the participants of the Wartburg Festival in

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, about which he later wrote a

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. After that, he continued his apprenticeship as a printer and studied in Berlin. There, in 1818, he became one of the founders of the local

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(fraternity). From 1818 to 1820, he was in

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, where he became a member of the , an athletic society, and was active as a

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. From 1819 to 1820, he was the society's Gymnastics Supervisor."Die Turnwarte der Hamburger Turnerschaft von 1816". In: ''Das Turnen. Festgabe zur Hundertjahrfeier der Hamburger Turnerschaft v. 1816 am 2. Sept. 1916.'' Hamburgischer Landesverband für Jugendpflege, Hamburg 1916, pg.43.
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In 1823, his father took him into the publishing business and he officially became a partner in 1825. After his father's retirement in 1830, he took over the company. Most of the works he published were by Professors at the University of Jena. He was a co-founder, and several times served as president, of the (Stock Exchange Association of German Booksellers). In 1852, he a founding member and first Treasurer of the (Association for

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n History). From 1853 to 1855, he represented the constituency of

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in the , and represented Jena there from 1859 to 1861. He was also a member of the Jena City Council for many years. In 1875, the city of Jena made him an

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and the University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. Shortly after his death, his company moved from Jena to

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. It still exists there today, doing business under the name .

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* * ''Das Burschenfest auf der Wartburg am 18ten und 19ten October 1817.'' Jena 1818.
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