Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf

German music publisher

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1695

Place of Birth: Clausthal, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1777

Profession: editor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (2 March 1695 in Clausthal, now Clausthal-Zellerfeld – 26 March 1777 in Leipzig) was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel. In 1714 he moved to Leipzig and worked for one year in a print shop.
After working for several months in Jena, and three years in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, he returned to Leipzig in 1718, married Sophia Maria Müller and inherited an existing print shop, established in 1664, which he rescued from the brink of economic ruin.
He began publishing with the 1723 printing of a manual of the Hebrew Bible.
After the death of his wife, Breitkopf remarried in 1739 to Sophia Theodore Kayser.
He passed on the printing business to his son Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in 1745.
He maintained the publishing side of the business until his death, however his son became a partner in 1762.

Johanna Dorothea Sysang (1729–1791)
Description	German copperplate engraver and engraver
Date of birth/death	7 April 1729	2 March 1791
Location of birth/death	Dresden	Leipzig
Authority control	: Q17482358 VIAF: 70077844 ISNI: 0000 0001 1573 8655 LCCN: no2006075695 GND: 131975048 SELIBR: 342773 WorldCat