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Frederic Shoberl (1775–1853), also known as Frederick Schoberl, was an English journalist, editor, translator, writer and illustrator. Shoberl edited ''Forget-Me-Not'', the first〔 literary annual, issued at Christmas "for 1823" and translated ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. ==Biography== Shoberl was born in London in 1775, and educated at the Moravian school at the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in West Yorkshire.〔G. C. Boase, ‘Shoberl , Frederic (1775–1853)’, rev. Nilanjana Banerji, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 1 June 2010 )〕 From 1809 he began editing Rudolph Ackermann's '‘Repository of Arts’' which had just started and was only at its third edition. Ackermann was seen as the populariser of aquatint engraving and his ''Repository of Arts'' was intended to cover "arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics". At the beginning of February 1814, Shoberl and Henry Colburn founded and became co-proprietors of the ‘New Monthly Magazine’. For some time Shoberl was editor, writing many of the articles and reviews and editing Ackermann's magazine.〔 From 27 June 1818 to 27 Nov. 1819 he was printer and publisher of the ‘'Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet'', and ''Plymouth Journal'’. The latter was published in Truro in Cornwall.〔 In 1822 he was the founding editor of Ackermann's ‘'The Forget-me-not'’ which was an annual, a new type of publication in England.〔(Contributions to annuals and gift-books ), James Hogg, Janette Currie, Gillian Hughes, p.xiv, 2006, accessed June 2010〕 This was the first literary annual in English〔(History:A "Small" Genre Succeeds ), Harris, Katherine D. "Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th-Century Literary Annual.", Sept 2007, Poetess Archive. General Editor Laura Mandell, accessed June 2010〕 Shoberl continued to edit the annual until 1834. Shoberl was also began overseeing Ackermann's junior annual, ''The juvenile Forget-me-not'' from 1828 until 1832. In addition to these editing tasks Shoberl was also an illustrator. He created his own hand-colored engravings for ''The World in Miniature: Hindoostan'' which was published in London by Ackermann in the 1820s.〔 Shoberl married Theodosia and they had two sons. William was an assistant to Henry Colburn, and then a publisher in Great Marlborough Street and Frederic, who was printer to Prince Albert in Rupert Street and died a year before his father. His wife died on 18 Dec. 1838. Shoberl died at Thistle Grove, Brompton, London, on 5 March 1853, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery a week later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederic Shoberl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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