Georg Thieme

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Georg Thieme (born July 2, 1860 in Leipzig , † December 26, 1925 there ) was a German publisher from Leipzig who mainly published scientific literature. He was the founder of the 1886 Georg Thieme Verlag, from which the Stuttgart-based today Thieme emerged.

Life

Grave site of the Thieme family in the south cemetery in Leipzig

The son of the Leipzig industrialist and art collector Alfred Thieme (1830–1906) and older brother of the art historian Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) learned the trade of bookseller. He then worked for a few years in the book trade in Leipzig, London, Brussels and Heidelberg before he bought Theodor Fischer's publishing house in Kassel in 1886 and founded his own publishing house. The capital for this came from the father's fortune.

The purchase of the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift , founded by Paul Albrecht Börner in 1875 and aimed primarily at doctors, expanded the company in 1887 and initiated Thiemes' focus on scientific literature. The German Medical Weekly became world famous under Thieme, especially after publications by renowned scientists such as Robert Koch , Emil von Behring or Richard Pfeiffer . With the takeover of the International Monthly for Anatomy and Physiology , Thieme succeeded in expanding his group of employees beyond Germany. In 1898 he founded the journal for physical therapy , bought up publishers and published other medical journals and specialist books.

Georg Thieme was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig in 1924 for his services . He died on December 26, 1925, his grave is in the Leipzig South Cemetery .

Publications of the publisher (selection)

  • German Medical Weekly (since 1887)
  • International monthly for anatomy and physiology
  • Physical Therapy Journal (since 1898)
  • Journal of Urology
  • German dentistry (4 volumes, since 1914)
  • Handbook of Balneology , Medical Climatology and Balneography
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic errors and their prevention

literature

  • Katrin Löffler, Iris Schöpa, Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipzig South Cemetery - History / Graves / Grave Monuments . Edition Leipzig in the Dornier Medienholding, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-361-00526-4 , p.

Remarks

  1. ^ Robert Koch published an article in 1890 on tuberculin , a vaccine obtained from tuberculosis bacilli .
  2. ^ Emil von Behring published his research on diphtheria
  3. Richard Pfeiffer wrote about the influenza pathogen.