F. A. Brockhaus AG was a German book publishing firm founded by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. It was best known for its eponymous encyclopedia and other renown bedrock brands for lexical functional grammar such as Duden, Meyers or the Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag and Kunstverlag Weingarten. Its legal successor is the company Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG.
 | |
 Company building in 1899 | |
| Company type | Publishing company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Book publishing |
| Founded | 1805 in Amsterdam |
| Founder | Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus |
| Defunct | March 20, 2009 |
| Fate |
|
| Successor | Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG |
| Headquarters | Munich , Germany |
The publicly traded company was eventually divested through fundamental asset-stripping after rights of the renown Brockhaus brand, including rights for its online presence and Meyers Online, were sold off to Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato, following a stock take-over through majority stakeholder Cornelsen Verlag. The remaining book publisher and legal successor, which has completely withdrawn from any lexical functional grammar or reference-works business fields, now operates under the name Bibliographisches Institut GmbH.[1]
History
editYou can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (Januar 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus founded his publishing house in 1805 in Amsterdam, then part of the Batavian Republic. In 1808, he acquired the rights to the Conversations-Lexikon, whose later editions came to be known as the Great Brockhaus (Der Große Brockhaus) and the Brockhaus Encyclopedia (Brockhaus Enzyklopädie). He relocated it to Altenburg in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1811 and then to Leipzig in Saxony in 1817. Its Leipzig operations were nationalized by East Germany following its 1953 formation. Its East German successor published reference works and geographical and ethnographic texts. Its West German successor established itself in Wiesbaden.[2] Following German reunification, corporate headquarters were moved to Munich.[3]
Footnotes
edit- ^ Interview zum Brockhaus-Verkauf: Wir ziehen uns komplett aus dem Geschäftsfeld „lexikalisches Nachschlagen“ zurück
(engl. Interview on the Brockhaus sale: We are withdrawing completely from the "lexical reference" business segment), in Boersenblatt.net, 16 December 2008. - ^ GSE (1970).
- ^ "Kontakt", Brockhaus, archived from the original on 1 December 2005, retrieved 22 January 2016 (in German)
Bibliography
edit- "Brockhaus", The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970
External links
edit- Official website (in German)
 | This German corporation or company article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |