Peter Lang Publishing Group
| Peter Lang AG International Publishing House for Science |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | Pieterlen and Bern , Switzerland |
| management | Claude Béglé (Chairman of the Board of Directors), Kelly Shergill (CEO), Vanessa Weber (CFO), Abdurahman Kaymaz (Head of Warehouse & Logistics) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.peterlang.com |
The Peter-Lang-Verlagsgruppe (spelling without hyphens) is an international scientific publisher specializing in publications in the humanities and social sciences. The publishing group has its headquarters in Bern and Pieterlen in Switzerland with further publishing locations in Berlin , Bern, Brussels , Dublin , Istanbul , New York City , Oxford , Vienna and Warsaw .
The publishing group publishes more than 1,800 academic titles annually, in both print and digital formats, and has a backlist of over 55,000 books. It offers its online journals through ingentaconnect , the world's largest platform for scientific publications, and distributes its digital textbooks internationally through Kortext .
Publishing program
The focus of the publishing program is on the following disciplines:
- German language and literature studies
- English language and literature studies
- Educational Science and Pedagogy
- history
- linguistics
- Media and communication studies
- philosophy
- Political science
- Jurisprudence
- Romance language and literature studies
- theology
- Economics and Management
history
The publishing group was founded in 1970 in Frankfurt am Main by Peter Lang († 2001) , who came from a Swiss publishing family, as Peter Lang GmbH . A branch in Vienna soon followed. In 1977 the publishing activities were brought into the "Peter Lang AG", which was newly founded under Swiss law, and the headquarters were relocated to Bern. Further corporate offices are located in Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna and Warsaw.
The original company began as a publisher of dissertations and comparable academic publications in German, thus meeting the needs of German and Austrian scientists. Peter Lang Publishing Inc. , founded in 1982, is the North American branch of the Peter Lang Publishing Group. This New York City-based publisher specializes in the publication of monographs in the humanities and social sciences, as well as textbooks in education and media studies. The publishing house in Oxford with an additional branch in Ireland was founded in 1996. Another location was opened in Brussels in 1999 with “PIE-Peter Lang”.
After the publisher's death in 2001, the Peter Lang Children's Trust - a foundation established by Lang to promote educational and social projects - inherited the assets of Peter Lang and became the owner and sole shareholder of the publishing group. In 2015 the foundation decided to concentrate on its philanthropic tasks and to sell the company to the members of the board of directors and the management in a management buyout . The Peter Lang Children's Trust is still supported by the publishing group.
The German location of the publishing group was relocated from Frankfurt am Main to Berlin at the beginning of 2018 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of "Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften" in the commercial register of the Canton of Bern ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Peter Lang Publishing Group
- ↑ a b Management buyout at Peter Lang. Neue Impulse , Börsenblatt , March 16, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015.
- ↑ a b website of the Peter Lang publishing group
- ^ Peter Lang press releases
- ^ Peter Lang Academic Publishing Group . IngentaConnect. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Lang and Kortext cooperate . Book market. November 25, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- ↑ Holger Höge: Written work in studies and work: a guide . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart (3rd edition) 2006. ISBN 978-3-17-019176-1 ; Pp. 117, 118
- ^ Critics Choice Awards . American Educational Studies Association. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- ^ Publishing house Oxford and Ireland
- ^ Brussels publishing house
- ^ Peter Lang Children's Trust: Who are we? , accessed November 28, 2015.
- ↑ Management from Peter Lang takes over the Wissenschaftsverlag. “Strategically Better Owners” , book report , March 17, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015.
- ^ Website of the publishing group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Peter Lang moves company headquarters from Frankfurt to Berlin , buchmarkt.de, June 29, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2017.
