Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer (24 December 1859 – 15 October 1934), was a Hungarian-born

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, the founder of

S. Fischer Verlag S. Fischer Verlag is a major German publishing house, which has operated as a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1962. The publishing house was founded in 1881 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin, but is currently based in Frankfurt am Mai ...

. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós (now

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), ''Liptau/

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megye'', northern

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Biography

He was trained as a bookseller in Vienna and moved to Berlin shortly afterwards. In Berlin, he joined the bookseller and publisher Hugo Steinitz. Fischer took on increasing responsibility for new publishing endeavours and managed to launch his own firm in 1886, the S. Fischer, Verlag. The Fischer publishing house first became known by introducing the works of

Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

to German stages and by supporting the naturalist circle in Berlin. Samuel Fischer founded the theatre society Freie Bühne with

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to avoid censorship. He died in

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. His granddaughter was the actress

Gisela Fischer Gisela Fischer (21 April 1929 – 19 June 2014) was a German-born stage actress, stage, film actress, film and television actress. Biography She was the granddaughter of the publisher Samuel Fischer. Her family fled from the Nazi German reg ...

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* 1859 births 1934 deaths People from Liptovský Mikuláš Hungarian Jews Austro-Hungarian emigrants to Germany German people of Hungarian-Jewish descent German people of Slovak-Jewish descent 19th-century German people 20th-century German people 19th-century Austrian people 20th-century Austrian people 19th-century Hungarian people 20th-century Hungarian people 19th-century publishers (people) 20th-century publishers (people) German publishers (people) Austrian publishers (people) Hungarian publishers (people) Businesspeople from Berlin Austrian magazine founders {{Austria-bio-stub

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