Schulthess Legal Media
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1791 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Firas Kharrat ( Managing Publisher ) |
| Number of employees | 63 (2015) |
| Branch | Publishing house , book trade |
| Website | www.schulthess.com |
The Schulthess Legal Media AG , based in Zurich is a Swiss publishing house and bookstore with a focus in the legal literature. The company was founded in 1791 by the theology professor and later canon Johannes Schulthess.
Schulthess Group
Schulthess Juristische Medien AG is active in the specialist trade of Swiss and foreign legal literature. In addition to the German-speaking Swiss publishing house, the Schulthess Group also includes the edition , which is represented in French-speaking Switzerland and is based in Geneva, and the bookshops in the university cities of Zurich and Basel. The range consists of over 4,000 available publishing houses. As one of the shareholders and data providers of the Swisslex legal database , the publisher publishes commentaries, monographs and periodicals.
history
The family business was founded in 1791 by theology professor Johannes Schulthess (1763-1836). Since his official dignity did not allow him to run a trading company in his own name and he did not have the necessary experience for this, he associated himself with the printer Kaspar Näf, who gave the company his name in the first few years. After the overthrow of 1798, Schulthess finally took over the business in his name. In addition to school books, works of theological content and historical works also formed the basis of the publishing house. The main concern was above all the publication of school books for the education of the youth. With letters to cut out, a forerunner of the type boxes that were used as teaching aids in primary schools until the very recent past was published. The publisher gained fame through the publication of Zwingli's works in eleven volumes, Bluntschli's state dictionary, Röstow's descriptions of war, Dändliker's historical works and teaching aids for elementary and secondary schools.
In 1831 the son Friedrich Schulthess (1804–1869) took over the company and shortly afterwards he founded the Schulthess bookstore on Zwingliplatz in Zurich. The company paid particular attention to the expansion of the legal publishing department, namely under the great-grandson of the founder, Hans Schulthess-Hünerwadel (1872–1959). His successor Robert Hürlimann-Schulthess (1893–1968), who managed the company until his death, published in particular legal and economic works. His daughter Mrs. Charlotte Homburger Mark (Hürlimann) then directed the fortunes of the publishing house and shaped it significantly. The profile as a legal specialist publisher began in 1970 when Schulthess merged with Polygraphisches Verlag. Thus, in the second half of the 19th century, the focus was on scientific, primarily legal, specialist literature.
Since 1909, the Zurich Commentary, an important reference work on Swiss private law, has been published by Schulthess Verlag.
literature
- Heinz Albers-Schönberg; Charlotte Homburger; Hans Reiser: The history of the Schulthess publishing house. The first 120 years. Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7255-2880-2