Georg Olms Publishing House

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Georg Olms Verlag in Hildesheim
Georg Olms Verlag in Hildesheim

The Georg Olms Verlag is one in Hildesheim -based book publisher with publications in the humanities area: first editions, e-books , reprints and microfiche from the fields of archeology, Arabic, history, history of medicine and science, Hippologie , Jewish Studies, Culture and Literature , Art history, musicology, new philologies, oriental studies, philosophy, theology and religious studies.

history

In 1886 Hermann Olms opened a bookstore in Hildesheim. Before the turn of the 20th century , the company expanded into a publishing company. School books, agricultural specialist literature and local history works formed the publishing program.

His son, George, in the Third Reich bookselling and publishing activities for political reasons by the Reich Chamber was prohibited founded another bookstore, which he in 1953 his son on November 1, 1945 Walter Georg handed. From this he developed a scientific antiquarian bookshop and in 1958 founded the Georg Olms Verlagbuchhandlung , which he geared particularly towards reprographic reprints of standard scientific works. In 1964 Walter Georg Olms acquired the publishing houses M. & H. Marcus (formerly Breslau) and Academia Verlag , Prague.

From 1969 works of trivial literature, fairy tales and legends, hippology , film history, culinary arts and mail order catalogs were published under the name Olms Presse . In 1970 the publishing house opened an office in New York. Production area III at Georg Olms Verlag, Olms Neue Medien , has been dealing with microfiche, CD-ROM editions and e-books for scientists, libraries and institutes since 1971 .

After the founding of Georg Olms Verlag GmbH in 1973 and Georg Olms AG in Zurich, founded in 1982 in Hildesheim, the publishing program includes not only first publications but also reprints of scientific literature on the humanities as well as on the history of medicine, natural sciences and technology. Manfred Olms, a son of Walter Georg Olms, founded Edition Olms AG in Zurich in 1977 with a focus on non-fiction books and photo books.

In 1983 Walter Georg Olms took over the Weidmannsche Verlagbuchhandlung , founded in 1680 , which is one of the oldest publishers in the humanities. Dietrich Olms, the younger son of WG Olms, took over marketing, sales and advertising in 1991. In 2002 he also took over the program management.

In March 2007, the Internet portal OLMS ONLINE was presented to the public in Leipzig. With the mass catalogs (1594–1860) and 350 volumes from the reprint program, editions of works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Gottfried Herder and Christian Wolff are also digitally available. In 2013 Georg Olms Verlag was awarded the Lower Saxony Publishing Prize.

literature

  • Georg-Olms-Verlag, Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Hrsg.): 60 years Georg Olms - 325 years Weidmann . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13111-5 .
  • W. Joachim Freyburg (Ed.): 100 Years of Olms: 1886–1986 . Festschrift . Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York, NY 1987, ISBN 978-3-487-07920-2 .
  • Ernst Vollert: The Weidmannsche Buchhandlung in Berlin 1680–1930 . Reprint of the edition: Weidmann , Berlin 1930 and an addition: Die Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1930–1983 . Weidmann, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-615-00003-X (= library of the German book trade association ).

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