| LC control no. | no2016027693 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wegner, Christian, 1893-1965 |
| Variant(s) | Wegner, Max Christian, 1893-1965 M. Chr. W., 1893-1965 W., M. Chr., 1893-1965 |
| See also | Founded corporate body: Albatross Verlag |
| Located | Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1893-09-09 |
| Death date | 1965-01-14 |
| Place of birth | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Place of death | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing Paperbacks Pocket editions Prohibited books |
| Affiliation | Albatross Verlag Grossohaus Wegner & Co. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Christian Wegner Verlag |
| Found in | Anschütz, Ernst. Die Leipziger Schlacht, 1924: page 8 (foreword signed: Max Christian Wegner) colophon ("Dem Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend zum Jahresessen 1924 überreicht von C.S. und M. Chr. W.") German Wikipedia, Feb. 29, 2016 (article title: Christian Wegner; Max Christian Wegner (born 9 September 1893, Hamburg; died 14 January 1965, Hamburg); Hamburg publisher; served in World War I as fighter pilot; in the 1920s, employed at Leipzig firms Insel-Verlag and Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag; with John Holroyd-Reece, founded (1932) and operated the publishing house Albatross Verlag in Paris, with distribution in Hamburg; full firm name "The Albatross Verlag Hamburg GmbH"; became the first modern publisher of paperbacks for the general mass market with world-wide distribution; published authors such as Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder and Virginia Woolf; also founded the Hamburg imprint Odyssey Press, which published authors such as James Joyce (Ulysses, 1932) and D. H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley, 1933) in English while they were still not permitted to publish in England; left Albatross in 1936 and returned to Hamburg; acquired the wholesale firm "Oscar Enoch" and the publishing house Verlag der Gebrüder Enoch, which he renamed "Grossohaus Wegner" and "Christian Wegner Verlag" respectively; served in World War II but was imprisoned for anti-Nazi remarks; resumed publishing after the war, publishing editions of classic authors; co-founder of the paperback publishing house Fischer-Taschenbücherei (1952)) |
| Associated language | ger |
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