Mundus

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Mundus ( Latin for "world") stands for

  • a company for the production and marketing of bentwood furniture, see Mundus AG ;
  • an operator of senior citizens' residences and homes for the elderly, based in Berlin;
  • a ritual pit in ancient Rome, see Mundus Cereris ;
  • an officer in the time of Justinian I, see Mundus (general) ;
  • an alias of the Swiss writer Jakob Vetsch (1879–1942).


Mundus is a family name for the following people:

  • Bernhard Mundus (1957–2013), German university professor (Münster University of Applied Sciences)
  • Marcus Mundus (* 1989), German music pedagogue and teacher, singer and musical performer
  • Doris Mundus (* 1951), German librarian


There are also:

  • a publisher's name until 1934 (Berlin; B.-Charlottenburg) and from 1945 (Basel, Zurich and Stuttgart);
  • a National Socialist media group Mundus GmbH of the information department (propaganda department) of the Foreign Office ; a subordinate publisher was called New World Publishing with the magazine XX. Century ( 20. Century ), see Klaus Mehnert ;
  • a family of fonts from Stempel AG Frankfurt: Mundus Antiqua halbfett; Mundus book script; Mundus book font italic; Mundus book font in bold; Mundus capital letters . Design Willy Schwerdtner. Production ceased in 1986, stock initially at the TH Darmstadt , now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum ibid.
  • mundus - The art magazine from Munich


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