Kosmos (magazine)
The magazine Kosmos was a popular science magazine from Franckh Kosmos Verlag, which existed from 1904 to 1999 when it merged with the magazine natur to become natur + kosmos (again natur from 2004 ).
The magazine belonged to the Kosmos, Gesellschaft für Naturfreunde founded by the publishers Euchar Nehmann and Walther Keller in 1903 (whose members received the magazine) and achieved a circulation of 7,800 copies in the first year, 66,000 in 1908 and over 100,000 in 1912. In doing so, she set new standards for scientific journals. From the late 1920s to the Second World War, the circulation was around 185,000. Successful book series were created around the magazine, experiment kits and telescope kits were sold. For example, there were also four books a year for subscribers to the magazine. Between 1907 and 1957, a total of 3,088 Kosmos volumes appeared. With its success, it was also able to outdo a number of other popular German-language journals founded at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Between the world wars it only had competition in Urania, founded in Berlin in 1924, and the Austrian Die Bildung . The success continued after the Second World War. In the mid-1960s, new competitors emerged in Germany in the form of Bild der Wissenschaft and in the late 1970s through Spektrum der Wissenschaft , Geo and PM Magazin , and in the 2000s, knowledge .
At first it had the subtitle Naturwissenschaftliches Literaturblatt . From the 2nd year it had the subtitle Handweiser für Naturfreunde , detailed Handweiser for Naturfreunde and Zentralblatt for scientific education and collecting .
The magazine appeared monthly. In her first issue she explicitly referred to Alexander von Humboldt and his main work Kosmos .
There was also a magazine Kosmos from 1877 to 1886, published in Leipzig (Ernst Günther's Verlag) and nurturing the ideas of Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel (subtitle: magazine for a uniform worldview based on development theory ). In addition, Reclam published the magazine Kosmos from 1857 to 1860 . Journal of Applied Sciences .
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References and comments
- ↑ Klaus Taschwer, From Kosmos to the Wonder World, in: Faulstich, Public Science, transcript 2006
- ↑ Temporarily from 2004 to 2009 also Süddeutsche Zeitung Wissen
- ^ Paul Faulstich, Public Science, in: Paul Faulstich (Ed.), Public Science, transcript Verlag 2006, p. 14