Anton Hiersemann Verlag

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The Anton Hiersemann Publishing is a scientific book publisher based in Stuttgart .

history

From the antiquarian bookshop and export range founded by Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann in Leipzig in 1884, a scientific publishing house emerged from 1892. The first published work was the title: L. Bickel, Book Covers from the 15th to 18th Century . In the following decades book history and bibliography , art history and applied arts , literary studies , Americana and Orientalia were the preferred publishing areas. The close connections to the large libraries in Germany resulted in publications such as the communications from the Prussian State Libraries , the complete catalog of cradle prints , the picture decorations of the early prints by Albert Schramm , the descriptive directory of illuminated manuscripts in Austria and others. Characteristic of the publishing house in the 1920s was the possible completion of large series works, some of which were out of print (due to the newly developed reprinting process), the rights of which had been acquired, such as the library of the Literary Association in Stuttgart , the Flora Brasiliensis by Maritus, the historical one Magazines and the folio series Monumenta Germaniae Historica (taken over from Hahnschen Buchhandlung) .

The publishing house, run in Leipzig under the name of the founder Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann , was, like the second-hand bookshop, expropriated by the GDR government in 1950 without compensation and the company was liquidated a little later. Starting in 1949, the publishing house was set up in Stuttgart under the head of the publishing house, Wilhelm Olbrich , which continues the tradition and program of the Leipzig house under the name Anton Hiersemann.

Since 2005, Florian Hiersemann (born February 11, 1976 in Stuttgart) is the fourth generation to support and manage the family-run academic publishing house.

In 2019 the publisher received the German Publishing Award .

meaning

Under the direction of Anton Hiersemann and since 1969 by Gerd Hiersemann (born June 23, 1938 in Leipzig), the program was expanded to focus on books and libraries, antiquity and Christianity, medieval history, art history, literary studies and religious studies . The outstanding titles include: Armin / Hodes: Internationale Personalbibliographie; Dahlmann-Waitz: Source studies of German history; Handbook of the History of the Bohemian Lands; Handbook of the History of Russia; Kirchner: Bibliography of the journals of the German language area; Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity ; Real Lexicon on Byzantine Art; The novelist; The actor leader; Schottenloher: Bibliography on history in the age of religious schism; Schreiber: Handbook of wood and metal cuts of the 15th century; Stop: The craft customers with local views; Directory of the 16th century prints published in the German-speaking area.

The second, completely revised edition of the Lexicon of the Entire Book Industry is of particular importance . Important book series are: Library of Greek Literature; Library of Middle Latin Literature; Library of books; Bibliographic yearbook for volumes of stories; Dated manuscripts in libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany; Monuments of book art with the corpus section of Byzantine miniature manuscripts; Hiersemann's Bibliographical Handbooks, Monographs on the History of the Middle Ages; Popes and Papacy; Sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages.

literature

  • Wilhelm Olbrich: 100 years of Hiersemann, 1884 to 1984 . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7772-8429-7 (344 pages, bibliography on pages 229-292).
  • Severin Corsten (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system . ... In eight volumes [so far]. 2nd, completely revised edition. Hiersemann, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-7772-8527-7 (1985-2007 [ff.]).

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