Academic printing and publishing company
The Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA or Akad. Dr.- u. Verl.-Anst.) Is an Austrian book publisher in Graz , which specializes primarily in the publication of complex facsimile editions .
The publishing house was founded by Paul Struzl (1914–1973) in Graz. The work began when the trained typesetter and doctorate in economics Paul Struzl acquired a Rotaprint machine from the state of Styria and founded an offset printing company under the name of his father-in-law Franz Hacker. In 1949 Struzl founded the Academic Printing and Publishing Company and brought in the printing company founded in 1947. In view of the large number of library holdings destroyed during the war, the focus of activity was on the reprint of scientific works, often in collaboration with the Scientific Book Society. In the course of the 1960s, the catalog already contained over a thousand titles, including not only the major German-language bibliographies, but also the largest German-language encyclopedias such as Johann Heinrich Zedler's famous Great Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts and the 168-volume General Encyclopedia of Sciences and arts by Johann Samuelersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber . In addition to these reprints of old works, a publishing program with academic literature in the fields of philology , history , art history , musicology , numismatics , philosophy and theology was developed . In addition, there was a pronounced interest in handwriting and handwritten book material. In cooperation with libraries, mainly in Austria, Italy and the Vatican, the Academic Printing and Publishing House became one of the leading international publishers for the production of complex facsimile editions. The publisher's best-known series of books , Codices Selecti , was founded in 1960, and numerous valuable manuscripts have been published in this series.
In 1995, the Academic Printing and Publishing Company received the Maecenas Art Prize in recognition of its publishing activities.
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- ↑ Karl Peter Elis: Styrian printing history ( Memento of 18 June 2012 at the Internet Archive ), 1982; Retrieved February 2, 2013