Emanuel Querido (6 August 1871 – 23 July 1943) was a successful
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publisher as the founder and owner of N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij, which published Dutch titles, and of , which published titles of German writers in exile from Nazi Germany. Although he and his wife were murdered by the
Nazis
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in 1943, his company has gone on to publish several important authors.
Professional biography
In 1898 he decided to found a bookstore at the Binnen-Amstel in
Amsterdam
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. The bookstore became a popular meeting-point for Dutch intellectuals. Querido had close connections with the diamond-polishing trade and supplied the library of the Dutch labour union for diamond workers. When the bookstore started to become profitable, he turned to publishing books, such as a translation of
Schopenhauer's ''
Parerga and Paralipomena
''Parerga and Paralipomena'' (Greek for "Appendices" and "Omissions", respectively; german: Parerga und Paralipomena) is a collection of philosophical reflections by Arthur Schopenhauer published in 1851. The selection was compiled not as a summa ...
''. The bookstore became a dispatching bookstore/publisher in
Bloemendaal
Bloemendaal () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Bloemendaal is, together with Wassenaar, the wealthiest place in the Netherlands.
In October 2015, after persistent problems with the local gover ...
in 1911, but business did not go well and in 1913 the shop had to close.
After several other jobs Querido got the opportunity to start a publishing house in Amsterdam, under his own name, near the
Keizersgracht
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, in 1915. Meanwhile, he also wrote a large, ten-part work titled ''Het geslacht der Santeljano's'' (''The lineage of the Santeljanos''), in which he criticized his brother, the writer