{
  "@context": "http://hub.culturegraph.org/entityfacts/context/v1/entityfacts.jsonld",
  "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/118173502",
  "describedBy": {
    "valid": "2026-06-07T12:58:24Z",
    "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "@id": "https://hub.culturegraph.org/entityfacts/118173502"
  },
  "preferredName": "Wilhelm Besser",
  "surname": "Besser",
  "forename": "Wilhelm",
  "@type": "person",
  "variantName": [
    "Guilelmus Besser",
    "W. Besser",
    "Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Besser",
    "Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Besser",
    "Karl Heinr. Wilh. Besser"
  ],
  "dateOfBirth": "December 1, 1808",
  "dateOfDeath": "July 8, 1848",
  "placeOfBirth": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4023118-5",
      "preferredName": "Hamburg"
    }
  ],
  "placeOfDeath": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4005728-8",
      "preferredName": "Berlin"
    }
  ],
  "associatedCountry": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/geographic-area-code#XA-DE",
      "preferredName": "Deutschland"
    }
  ],
  "professionOrOccupation": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4130948-0",
      "preferredName": "Buchha\u0308ndler"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4642317-5",
      "preferredName": "Sortimentsbuchha\u0308ndler"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4138343-6",
      "preferredName": "Verleger"
    }
  ],
  "gender": {
    "@id": "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gender#male",
    "label": "Mann"
  },
  "biographicalOrHistoricalInformation": "Buchha\u0308ndler, u\u0308bernahm 1837 Berliner Sortiments-Buchhandlung von Gustav Eichler, die er mit seinem 1835 in Hamburg gegru\u0308ndetes Gescha\u0308ft vereinigte, verkaufte diese 1847 an Wilhelm Hertz",
  "affiliation": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/1073023079",
      "preferredName": "Wilhelm Besser (Hamburg)"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/107294121X",
      "preferredName": "Wm. Besser's Antiquar- und Sortimentsbuchhandlung (Berlin)"
    }
  ],
  "relatedPerson": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/1037542568",
      "relationship": "Vorga\u0308nger",
      "preferredName": "Gustav Eichler"
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/116754885",
      "relationship": "Nachfolger",
      "preferredName": "Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz"
    }
  ],
  "familialRelationship": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/11676645X",
      "relationship": "Ehefrau",
      "preferredName": "Auguste Curtius"
    }
  ],
  "sameAs": [
    {
      "@id": "https://d-nb.info/gnd/118173502/about",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "DNB",
        "name": "Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek",
        "publisher": "Deutsche Nationalbibliothek",
        "icon": "https://www.dnb.de/SiteGlobals/Frontend/DNBWeb/Images/favicon.png?__blob=normal&v=4"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://kalliope-verbund.info/gnd/118173502",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "DE-611",
        "name": "Kalliope Verbundkatalog",
        "publisher": "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz",
        "icon": "https://kalliope-verbund.info/img/favicon.ico"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/118173502",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "DDB",
        "name": "Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek",
        "publisher": "Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek",
        "icon": "https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/favicon.ico"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2008115352",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "LC",
        "name": "NACO Authority File",
        "publisher": "Library of Congress",
        "icon": "https://www.loc.gov/favicon.ico"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://viaf.org/viaf/22931703",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "VIAF",
        "name": "Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)",
        "publisher": "OCLC",
        "icon": "https://viaf.org/viaf/images/viaf.ico"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94799859",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "WIKIDATA",
        "name": "Wikidata",
        "publisher": "Wikimedia Foundation Inc.",
        "icon": "https://www.wikidata.org/static/favicon/wikidata.ico"
      }
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000013551400",
      "collection": {
        "abbr": "ISNI",
        "name": "International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)",
        "publisher": "International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)",
        "icon": "https://www.isni.org/sites/default/files/isni_new_favicon.ico"
      }
    }
  ]
}