Max Niemeyer Publishing House

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The Max Niemeyer Verlag is a German publisher of linguistic and literary studies , literature its former headquarters in Tübingen was. The focus of the philological publishing program is German and Romance studies , alongside it publishes historical-critical editions as well as in the field of media and communication studies , rhetoric , Judaica and cultural and social history . The publishing house has belonged to the Berlin science publisher De Gruyter since 2006 . The Niemeyer program has been fully integrated into the De Gruyter program structure.

history

Max Niemeyer Verlag was founded in Halle (Saale) in 1870 by the bookseller Maximilian David Niemeyer , a son of Hermann Agathon Niemeyer . The publishing house grew rapidly until the 1930s and was broadly based, including literature in the fields of law , mathematics and medicine . Important authors of this time were Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger .

In the 1960s the publishing house moved to Tübingen. The publishing program, which also included the oldest English specialist journal Anglia , was limited to linguistics and literary studies. In addition, philosophical works by Husserl, Heidegger, Roman Ingarden and others remained. a. as well as the publications of the German Historical Institute in Rome in the program.

In 2005 the K. G. Saur Verlag took over the Max Niemeyer Verlag, in 2006 De Gruyter again bought the K. G. Saur Verlag and thus also the Max Niemeyer Verlag.

The VEB Max Niemeyer Verlag Halle was incorporated into the VEB Bibliographical Institute in Leipzig in 1964. Archives of the Max Niemeyer Verlag, including from the years before the nationalization in the GDR, are in holdings 21094 of the Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig.