Mohr Siebeck
Founded | 1801 |
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Country of origin | Germany |
Headquarters location | Heidelberg |
Publication types | Books Journals |
Official website | www |
The Mohr Siebeck Verlag is an academic publisher focused on the humanities and based in Tübingen, Germany.
Founded in 1801 in Frankfurt am Main as the Hermann'sche Buchhandlung,[1] the publishing house was comprised of a press and retail book trade. In 1805, it became the university bookshop in Heidelberg. Still today, it specializes in the traditional subjects of theology and law but now publishes in a range of fields across the humanities, including Judaic studies, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, history, and economics.
The company's archives were given in 2010 to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
History
Frankfurt and Heidelberg
On August 1, 1801, August Hermann founded a publisher in Frankfurt, which operated as both a press and a retailer of books. Jacob Christian Benjamin Mohr too over the publishing house in 1804, and one year later, he and Johann Georg Zimmer founded the academic publishing house Mohr & Zimmer, which still contained both a publishing and retail division. In 1811 the Frankfurt branch was closed, and in 1815 Zimmer withdrew as partner, being replaced by Christian Friedrich Winter. In 1822, Mohr parted with Winter and continued the publishing house under the name J.C.B. Mohr. Winter continued business on his own, as Winter University Press.
In 1825, J.C.B. Mohr co-founded the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Leipzig, serving as its head from 1838 to 1840. After his death, in 1854, the company went to his sons.
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Further reading
- Knappenberger-Jans, Silke (2001). Verlagspolitik und Wissenschaft. Der Verlag J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft (in German). Vol. 13. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-04497-4.
References
- ^ "About Us". Mohr Siebeck. Retrieved 22 April 2016.