K.u.K. Court Bookshop - Moritz Perles

Moritz Perles was born in Prague on December 15, 1844, and after his apprenticeship as a bookseller with Schalek in Prague (1858-62) and subsequent professional experience with J. Bensheimer in Mannheim (1862-1864) and the Beck University Bookshop in Vienna (1865-1869). Bensheimer in Mannheim (1862-1864) and the Beck’sche Universitätsbuchhandlung in Vienna (1865-1869), Moritz Perles began his activities as a publisher as early as 1866 by publishing the Adreßbuch der österr.-.ungar. After his application for a license was rejected in 1868, he was able to open his own book and art shop at Steindelgasse 2 in the 1st district on 15 March 1869. The bookshop, which was initially founded with modest means, developed into one of the most outstanding booksellers in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Moritz Perles established a calendar publishing house in 1869, followed in 1870 by the publication of war maps, which was followed in 1874 by the introduction of a pedagogical publishing house. In 1878, Perles founded the hunting calendar with R. von Dombrowski and began to expand the agricultural department of his large publishing house by publishing Hugo H. Hitschmann's writings. The Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, which he acquired in 1888, was published by the Perles publishing house until „Aryanization“ in 1938.Moritz Perles had three sons (Oskar, Ernst, Robert) and one daughter (Elsa).two sons succeeded their father.Oskar Perles, born on 16 April 1875, joined the company as a public partner in 1899. When Moritz Perles died of a stroke on 25 February 1917, the business was passed on to his two sons Oskar and Ernst and their uncle Friedrich Schiller. In the course of the so-called "Aryanization", the company was sold under pressure to the Hollinek printing company. Oscar Perles, who did not agree with this, died in the Izbica concentration camp in 1942.