Schöningh Verlag (textbook)
The Schöningh Verlag was part of the Paderborn- based scientific publishing house Ferdinand Schöningh . The school book division of Schöningh Verlag has been part of the Braunschweig Westermann Group since 2002 . Paderborn remained the editorial office.
history
On May 12, 1847, the bookseller Ferdinand Schöningh founded the publishing house of the same name in Paderborn with the aim of promoting public education. Soon after the founding, Schöningh was able to win two well-known authors in Joseph von Eichendorff and the Catholic social reformer Adolph Kolping .
The development of the textbook program began in the first few years after the publishing house was founded. Initially, it was textbooks for Latin and history, as well as reading books and a large number of philologically reliable Latin, Greek and German text editions that shaped the program. The classic editions comprised more than 400 titles in several series and were the real domain of the school division. In 1943 the publishing business was stopped after partial expropriations, bans and confiscations by the National Socialists .
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Schöningh was one of the first publishers to be re-approved by the Allied military authorities. Since then, the focus of the textbook program has been on the subjects of the humanities and social sciences with the main target group high schools .
As part of a reorganization of the publishing house, the school books division of the publishing house was sold to the Westermann Group under the name Schöningh Verlag in 2002 . The publisher's name is used as an imprint within the group .
literature
- Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 1847–1997, Paderborn 1997