Herman H. J. Lynge
Herman Henrik Julius Lynge was a Danish antiquarian bookseller. He continued and owned the first antiquarian bookshop in Scandinavia, now Herman H. J. Lynge amp Sn AS.
Lynge was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the son of a bookbinder. At a very young age, before he was even confirmed, he began his apprenticeship as a bookseller, and the shop in which he took his education was carefully chosen by his father, Henrik Berndt Lynge. His master was Christian Tnder Sbye , who had started his bookshop, initially a secondhand shop focusing on books, in 1821 on Gothersgade 26. After his apprenticeship, Lynge continued to work in the company, and when Sbye died in 1844, the young man, only aged twentytwo, took over as manager of the bookshop, which was still owned by the Sbye family. In 1853 Lynge was able to buy the bookshop from the family at the price of 1,000 rixdollars, and at the same time he took out a trade licence as a bookseller. In the first years the cholera was harrying Copenhagen, and Lynge is said to have done great business at the time due to the large number of private libraries offered for sale he was the only proper antiquarian bookseller in
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