List of editions of Brehms Tierleben 1863–1963

The list of editions of Brehms Thierleben 1863–1963 includes all editions of Brehms Thierleben in the German-speaking area in the 100 years since the first edition was published in 1863. The one and two-volume editions after 1945 are summarized. The data are based on library and antiquarian bookshops. Inconsistent information about reprints and dates could not always be resolved.

title	Edition	year	Author, editor	Number of volumes	Publisher, place	Volume of the volumes	Reprints and editions; Online texts with US proxy
Illustrated animal life. A general knowledge of the animal kingdom	1st edition	1864-69	Alfred Edmund Brehm	6th	Bibliographical Institute , Hildburghausen	Vol. 1 : XI, 696 pp. Vol. 2 : VIII, 901 S. Vol. 3 : 970 S. Vol. 4 : 1035 S. Vol. 5 : V, 841 S. Vol. 6 : IV, 1109 S.	Deliveries from 1863 Two reprints in Fackelverlag, Stuttgart: 1979, Stuttgart facsimile edition, with commentary. 1985, without commentary.
Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben for people and schools	1st edition	1868-70	Friedrich Schödler	3	Bibliographical Institute, Hildburghausen, Leipzig (from 1874)	Vol. 1: XXIV, 816 pp. Vol. 2: XVIII, 866 pp. Vol. 3: XII, 945 pp.	Reprints: 1870–73 "New stereotype edition": 1879/1883, 1886, 1890
Brehm's Thierleben. General customer of the animal kingdom. Great edition	2nd, revised and enlarged edition	1876-79	Alfred Edmund Brehm	10	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna	Vol. 1: XVI, 706 pp. Vol. 2: XII, 628 p. Vol. 3: XII, 756 p. Vol. 4: XVI, 754 p. Vol. 5: XVI, 699 p. Vol. 6: XVI, 671 p. Vol. 7: XVI , 673 pp. Vol. 8: -, 440 pp. Vol. 9: XXX, 710 pp. Vol. 10: XXVI, 582 pp.	2. Reprinted as “colored edition” 1882–87 On CD-Rom: Digital Library , Vol. 76 Reprint Weltbild, Augsburg 2008 1st online copy 2nd online copy
Brehm's animal life. General customer of the animal kingdom	3rd completely revised edition	1890-93	Eduard Pechuel-Loesche	10	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna	Vol. 1: XLIV, 702 pp. Vol. 2: XII, 744 p. Vol. 3: XII, 744 p. Vol. 4: XIV, 770 p. Vol. 5: XIV, 730 p. Vol. 6: XIV, 740 p. Vol. 7: XIV , 825 p. Vol. 8: XVIII, 517 p. Vol. 9: XXXII, 764 p. Vol. 10: XXVIII, 716 p.	Complete index: 179 pp., 1897 New prints: 1893–1900 online editions vol. 1, 6, 8, 9, 10 (various prints) online edition vol. 5 (printed 1900)
Brehm's animal life. Small edition for people and schools	2nd completely revised edition	1893	Richard Schmidtlein	3	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna	Vol. 1: XVI, 748 pp. Vol. 2: XX, 784 pp. Vol. 3: XXXVI, 964 pp.	Imprints 1900–03 Edition 1893 online
Brehm's animal life. General customer of the animal kingdom	4th, completely revised edition	1911-1918	Otto zur Strassen	13	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna	Vol. 1: XXIV, 590 pp. Vol. 2: XLII, 716 p. Vol. 3: XXII, 590 p. Vol. 4: XVI, 572 p. Vol. 5: XVI, 598 p. Vol. 6: XIV, 498 p. Vol. 7: XIV , 492 p. Vol. 8: XII, 472 p. Vol. 9: XVI, 568 p. Vol. 10: XX, 580 p. Vol. 11: XVIII, 654 p. Vol. 12: XVIII, 722 p. Vol 13: XX, 714 pp.	2. Reprint Vienna 1920/21 3rd reprint Leipzig 1922 4th reprint Leipzig 1925 1st reprint online
Brehm's animal life. Small edition for people and schools	3rd edition after the 4th edition of the main work	1913-18	Walther Kahle	4th	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig	Vol. 1: XXXII, 415 pp. Vol. 2: XXII, 593 p. Vol. 3: XXII, 648 p. Vol. 4: XXII, 737 p. Vol. 5: -, 475 p.	Reprints and reprints 1919–1934 Extended special edition Der Vogelbrehm , 1927
Little Brehm. The entire animal kingdom in a generally understandable representation. Selected animal types from the second edition of the main work "Brehms Tierleben" revised	1st edition	1924	Walther Kahle	1	Karl Voegels Verlag, Berlin	XX, 886 pp.	Reprinted 1927–1935
Brehm's animal life. Selected and edited by Carl W. Neumann	1st edition	1924	Carl Wilhelm Neumann	6th	Philipp Reclam , Leipzig	Vol. 1: 687 pp. Vol. 2: 590 S. Vol. 3: 733 S. Vol. 4: 724 S. Vol. 5: 728 S. Vol. 6: 776 S.	2nd edition in 8 volumes see 1928
Brehm's animal life. After the second original edition, edited by Dr. Adolf Meyer. Library of Natural Sciences.	1st edition	1926	Adolf Meyer	36 in 18 (24 in 12 + 12 in 6)	Gutenberg Verlag, Vienna, Hamburg, Zurich	Vol. 1/2: 310 pp. Vol. 3/4: 392 p . 5/6: 412 p . 7/8: 345 p . 9/10: 348 p . 11/12: 328 p . 13/14 : 395 p. Vol. 13/14: 395 p. Vol. 15/16: 382 p. Vol. 17/18: 368 p. Vol. 19/20: 408 p. Vol. 21/22: 368 p. Vol 23/24: 441 p. Supplementary series: Vol. 1/2: 302 p. Vol. 3/4: 364 p. Vol. 5/6: 412 p. Vol. 7/8: 251 p. Vol. 9 / 10: 344 pp. Vol. 11/12: 236 pp.	"Green edition" of the book guild Reprints often undated, 1927? –1929? Beginning of publication of the supplementary series in 1927?
Animal life. Revised and annotated by Fritz Bley		1926-1929	Fritz Bley	4th	German Book Community, Berlin	Vol. 1 512 pp. Vol. 2 419 p. Vol. 3 410 p. Vol. 4	according to the preface an abridged edition based on the 2nd edition
Brehm's animal life. Selected and edited by Dr. W. Koch	1st edition	1926 (4), 1930 (1)	Walter Koch	5	Schlueter and Co., Leipzig Paul Franke, Berlin	Vol. 1: 295 pp. Vol. 2: 355 S. Vol. 3: 442 S. Vol. 4: 428 S. Vol. 5: 366 S. (1930)	Also "Diovis edition". Vol. 5 under the series title “The University in the House. Library of folk science. ” First name of the editor in catalogs resolved as Walter or Walter Alfred Koch Imprints 1927 ff.?
Brehm's animal life. Adapted from the second original edition by Werner Hagen and Otto Evers	1st edition	1928	Werner Hagen , Otto Evers	36 in 18	Uhlenhorst Verlag Curt Brenner, Hamburg	Vol. 1/2: 315 pp. Vol. 3/4: 315 p . 5/6: 318 p . 7/8: 317 p . 9/10: 315 p . 11/12: 317 p . 13/14 : 319 p. Vol. 15/16: 317 p. Vol. 17/18: 316 p. Vol. 19/20: 317 p. Vol. 21/22: 316 p. Vol. 23/24: 311 p. Vol 25/26: 302 p . 27/28: 303 p . 29/30: 311 p . 31/32: 309 p . 33/34: 309 p . 35/36: 310 pp.	also in Tiflis-Verlag, o. O., o. J.
Brehm's animal life in one volume. Based on the latest (fourth) edition of the main work, freely edited by Georg Grimpe	1st edition	1928	Georg Grimpe	1	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig	XXXVI, 836 pp.	Imprints until 1934, from 1933 ud T. Volks-Brehm. New edition of Brehms Tierleben in one volume. Subsequent processor: Walter Rammner 1935 (see there)
Brehm's animal life. Anniversary edition in eight volumes. Edited according to the latest state of science and selected by Carl W. Neumann	1st (2nd) edition	1928/29	Carl-Wilhelm Neumann	8th	Reclam, Leipzig	Vol. 1: 493 pp. Vol. 2: 489 S. Vol. 3: 451 S. Vol. 4: 530 S. Vol. 5: 458 S. Vol. 6: 551 S. Vol. 7: 544 S. Vol. 8: 483 S.	also referred to as 2nd edition (from 1st edition 1924, see there) Imprints 1933–1942 (also referred to as 2nd and 3rd edition)
Volks-Brehm	1st edition	1937	Walter Rammner	2	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig	Vol. 1: 326 pp. Vol. 2: 306 pp.	Previous editor: Georg Grimpe 1928 (see there)
Brehm's animal life in four volumes. Completely reworked by Walter Rammner	1st edition	1941	Walter Rammner	4th	Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig	Vol. 1: VII, 458 pp. Vol. 2: VII, 385 p. Vol. 3: VI, 522 p. Vol. 4: VI, 447 p.	2nd edition 1952 (see there)
Brehm's animal life. Revised by Wilhelm Bardorff	1st edition	1950	Wilhelm Bardorff	1, 2	Safari Verlag, Berlin	822 pp.	also with the addition Volksausgabe in one volume , Volksausgabe in two volumes , also with the title Der neue Brehm . Issues in increasing extent until 1966. Issues of the German book community
Brehm's animal life in four volumes. Completely reworked by Walter Rammner	2nd Edition	1952	Walter Rammner	4th	VEB Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig	Vol. 1: 464 pp. Vol. 2: 388 p. Vol. 3: 525 p. Vol. 4: 451 p.	Reprints 1955/56 Urania, Leipzig / Jena. 1st edition 1941, see there.
Brehm's animal life. After the second and last original edition, edited by Adolf Meyer-Abich	1st edition	1953	Adolf Meyer-Abich	12	Standard Verlag, Hamburg	Vol. 1: 335 pp. Vol. 2: 342 S. Vol. 3: 382 S. Vol. 4: 342 S. Vol. 5: 350 S. Vol. 6: 336 S. Vol. 7: 347 S. Vol. 8: 320 S. Vol 9: 318 pp . 10: 346 pp . 11: 348 pp . 12: 414 pp.	after the 2nd edition 1876–79, see there
Brehm's animal life. Large illustrated edition in two volumes. Edited by Ulrich Dunkel	1st edition	1964	Ulrich Dunkel	2	German Book Association, Stuttgart Book guild, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Zurich	Vol. 1: 494 pp. Vol. 2: 448 pp.	further book club editions. From 1952 also the series The most beautiful descriptions from Brehm's animal life , Bad Pyrmont

Individual evidence

1. ↑ for the technology and list of current web anonymizers see Google Book Search on Wikisource
2. ^ W. Heß:  Schödler, Friedrich Karl Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 213.

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