Hirschwald publishing house
The Hirschwald Verlag was one of the most important publishers for medicine and natural sciences in the German Empire. It was founded by August Hirschwald (1774–1848), who also had a bookshop in Berlin.
August Hirschwald founded a bookstore in Berlin at Burgstrasse 25 in 1816. Ten years later it also became a publishing house.
In 1840 Eduard Aber (1810–1899), a nephew of August Hirschfeld, took over the range and, thanks to the location of the bookstore, ensured that the focus was on medicine and natural sciences. In 1842 he published a catalog in this area, which became decisive for the book trade. After the death of August Hirschwald, his son Ferdinand Hirschwald (1826–1899) took over the publishing house and in 1868 joined forces with Albert Aber (1842–1920), the son of Eduard Aber, who in 1872 became co-owner and in 1899 sole owner of the publishing house and book trade .
The Hirschwald Verlag has published the Archive for Clinical Surgery since 1860, the Archive for Gynecology from 1870, the Archive for Laryngology from 1893, the Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases from 1868 and the Archive for Veterinary Medicine from 1875. Further journals from 1886 on were the works from the surgical clinic of the University of Berlin, from 1863 the Centralblatt für Medical Sciences, from 1876 the Charité-Annalen, the annual reports for all medicine (from 1867), the annual reports for anatomy and physiology (from 1867 ), the annual reports for the military medical service (from 1874), the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift (from 1864) and the medical calendar (from 1850).
The publisher's authors included many well-known medical professionals, especially those from the Berlin School: Rudolf von Virchow (The Diseased Tumors), Bernhard von Langenbeck , Ernst von Bergmann , Theodor Billroth , Julius Cohnheim , Carl Binz , Hermann von Helmholtz , Hermann Nothnagel , Alwin von Coler , Ernst Friedrich Gurlt , Fritz König , Andreas Christian Gerlach , Wilhelm Ellenberger , Friedrich von Esmarch , Hermann Eulenberg , Ernst von Leyden , Wenzel Gruber , Johannes Orth , Rudolf Lex , Wilhelm August Roth , Felix von Niemeyer (textbook of pathology), Johann Ludwig Casper (Handbook of Forensic Medicine), Felix Hoppe-Seyler , Karl von Graefe and Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach .
Eduard Aber found himself exposed to increasing competition both in the medical publishing sector ( Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Braumüller-Verlag , FCW Vogel, JF Bergmann, Gustav Fischer, S. Karger, Georg Thieme, Urban & Schwarzenberg, J. Springer) and as a medical bookstore . In 1872 Oscar Rothacker had opened a bookstore for medicine, which overtook the Hirschwaldschen. A mainstay, however, were the publisher's magazines (the archive series and the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift).
In March 1921, the publishing house and the bookstore were taken over by Springer Verlag . After the death of Eduard Aber there was no successor in the family. Springer was particularly interested in the journals that were merged with Springer's own journals (for example, the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift and the Therapeutic bi-monthly journals from Springer became the Klinische Wochenschrift). The purchase price was 175,000 marks.
literature
- Heinz Sarkowski, Heinz Götze: Springer-Verlag. Pt. 1: 1842-1945, Springer 1992, pp. 245f