Natan Glücksberg
, 1780 - 1831
Natan Glücksberg, a well-known publisher and official bookseller and typographer of the Royal Warsaw University (1816-1831), closed as part of the reprisals by the Russian government after the November Uprising. He published about 220 books, of which about one hundred titles of Polish belles lettres. He was a vocal champion of Jewish rights in Poland and took part in several formal requests to the authorities for civic and political rights for Polish Jews. In 1818, he obtained a rare royal privilege giving him the right to purchase real estate in all cities of the kingdom. While his sons and one daughter became members of the Evangelical Reformed Church and he himself favoured assimilation for Polish Jews, he never converted to Christianity. His publishing house and bookstore was dispersed after his death even though his sons remained active in the book industry. His youngest son, Gustaw Leon, opened a publishing house and bookstore in Warsaw in 1839 and among other titles continued the series The Library for Good Children.
Source:
Polski Słownik Judaistyczny, consulted October 19, 2020 at the website of the Jewish Historical Institute.
Bio prepared by Elżbieta Olechowska, University of Warsaw, elzbieta.olechowska@gmail.com
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