Schwabe AG
The Schwabe Verlag in Basel is the oldest existing publishing house in the world. The Schwabe publishing leads to the founded in 1488 Offizin of John Petri back and since then, or since the accession of Basel, the Swiss Confederation in 1501, an independent Swiss family business . There has been a branch in Berlin since 2017 .
publishing company
With a focus on the humanities, Schwabe publishes around 120 books and magazines every year. The academic editing and cooperation with university institutions and academies ensure the scientific quality of individual titles, major projects (e.g. Historical Lexicon of Switzerland , Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Outline of the History of Philosophy , Augustinus Lexicon , Karl Jaspers Complete Edition ) and the over 20 running rows.
The publisher used as Signet from school Hans Holbein designed printer brand of printing family of Peter, which the scripture Jeremiah illustrates 23,29: "Are not my words like fire, says the Lord, like a hammer in pieces the rocks?"
Since 2018 the publishing house has been part of the Schwabe publishing group , which also includes the NZZ Libro , Zytglogge and Bergli publishers . The traditional medicine section of the publishing house with the journals Swiss Medical Weekly (founded in 1871), Swiss Medical Forum was brought into the Swiss medical publisher EMH in 1997 , in which the company holds a stake.
The production area, the print shop Die Medienmacher AG in Muttenz , had to be given up in January 2020.
history
In November 1488 Johannes Petri von Langendorf near Hammelburg in Franconia , who had learned the art of printing and writing in Mainz during Gutenberg's lifetime , bought Basel citizenship and the guild law of the saffron guild. As a result, he published partly independently, but mostly in a printing and publishing partnership with Johannes Amerbach and Johannes Froben . After his death, his nephew Adam Petri took over the business and reprinted almost all of Martin Luther's important writings . Adam's son Heinrich Petri printed literature from theology to classical authors and contemporary history to mathematics and natural science, medicine and alchemy, including numerous compilations and encyclopedias.
After Heinrich Petri's death in 1579, Sebastian Henricpetri continued the business for 50 years. Jacob Bertsche took over the company from his heirs in 1665, which was then transferred to the Schweigerhauserische Verlagbuchhandlung via the Lüdin family and the Decker printer dynasty . After several redesigns, this was taken over by Benno Schwabe in 1868 . Benno Schwabe's descendants led the company into the 20th century, supported from 1926 by his grandson Christian Overstolz, who took over the company in 1963. This was finally converted from a general partnership into a family-owned stock corporation.
In 2009 the publishing house became the first Swiss company to join the German Book Trade Association .
literature
- Frank Hieronymus: 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988. A traditional Basel publishing house as reflected in its early prints . 2 volumes, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7965-1000-0 .