Martin Hürlimann
Martin Hürlimann was a Swiss publisher, better known in the English-speaking world as a photographer.
Following successful completion, at Frauenfeld, of his school career, Hürlimann went on to study History, German literature and Philosophy at Zürich, Leipzig and Berlin universities. His doctoral thesis, submitted and accepted in 1924, was entitled Die Aufklärung in Zürich. Die Entwicklung des Zürcher Protestantismus im 18. Jahrhundert.
In 1929, Hürlimann founded the newspaper "Atlantis", based in Berlin and specialising in international travel and related themes. In 1930, he founded "Atlantis Verlag", a publishing house, taking over from Ernest Wasmuth publication of the "Orbis Terrarum" series of books. In 1933, he married Bettina Kiepenheuer, the oldest daughter of Gustav Kiepenheuer, another publisher. In 1936, he founded a Zürich branch of "Atlantis Verlag", and by 1939, with the outbreak of war, had relocated his head office to Zürich, while retaining a German branch across the border at Freiburg im Breisgau.
His wife and co-publisher, Bettina Hurlimann, is the author of Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe, published 1967. They lived in Uerikon, Switzerland.
His photographic work was published in a number of books. Western European cities were a common theme, but he also photographed Ceylon and Southeast Asia.
In the 1930 English edition of his book Burma, Ceylon, Indo-China, Hürlimann wrote "My photographs were chiefly taken with a Sinclair Una camera, Zeiss lens, and Kodak films."
Books
Burma, Ceylon, Indo-China - Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Tongking, Yunnan, B. Westermann Co. Inc., New York, 1930Bilder aus Berlin, Potsdam und Umgebung, Atlantis Verlag Berlin, 1936Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Thames & Hudson, London, 1965.Gothic cathedrals: Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, B.H. Blackwell, Ltd, 1938 Englische Kathedralen, Atlantis Verlag AG, Zurich, 1948, translation Thames and Hudson, LondonEternal France, Thames & Hudson. 1952 — 216 b/w photographs in photogravureItaly, Thames & Hudson. 1953 — 225 b/w photographs in photogravureLondon, Thames & Hudson 1956 — 115 b/w photographs in photogravure, six colour plates, introduced by Eric Walter WhiteEurope, Thames & Hudson 1957Asia, Thames & Hudson 1957Traveller in the Orient,Atlantis Verlag AG, Zurich, 1959, translation Thames and Hudson, London, 1960Asia, Thames & Hudson 1957