Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann

Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (14 September 1765, Züllichau – 12 June 1837, Jena) was a German publisher and bookseller.

He received his training in Berlin, from the publisher August Mylius, and took over the family business after his father's death.

Up to then, the firm had focused exclusively on books related to theology and philosophy, but he expanded their catalog to include school and language dictionaries; notably the Kritische Griechisch-Deutsche Handwörterbuch (Concise Greek-German Dictionary, 1797) by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider.

Most of the famous authors of the time became his clients, and his home was a gathering place for the cultural community.

Within a year, he had opened his own printing shop and married Johanna Wesselhöfft (1765–1830), with whom he had a son and raised a foster daughter, Wilhelmine Herzlieb ("Minna"), who became a favorite of Goethe.