About Alfred Altenberg
Lived 1877 – 1924 (aged 46–47). Alfred Altenberg was a Polish bookseller and publisher.
Alfred Altenberg (1878 in Warsaw – May 8, 1924, in Lviv) was a Polish bookseller and publisher.
He worked in Lviv. In 1897 he took over the family business, Wydawnictwo Altenberga, from his father Herman (1848–1885), and ran the Herman Alternberg Book Store. He published numerous illustrated classics of Polish literature, reproductions of works of Artur Grottger, Szymon Askenazy, books about art and drama and a series of popular science knowledge and life books, amongst others.
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Polish printer
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Alfred Altenberg was born in 1877 in Warsaw.
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Alfred Altenberg died on 8 May 1924 in Lviv.
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Alfred Altenberg was a bookseller and publisher.
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Alfred Altenberg was Polish.
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